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The Argonauts

Before we met, I had spent a lifetime devoted to Wittgenstein’s idea that the inexpressible is...

The cliche is blamed for spoiling language and style. While this may be true, its destructive...

I am wary of the dangers of fetishizing dialect and archaism – all that mollocking and sukebinding...

Heckling is, or once was, the process of removing the knots from wool. Sheep are notoriously...

Although I knew Gaelic to be richly responsive to the sites in which it was spoken, it was my...

“I have a right to know everything that pertains to the experiment, and that includes my...