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Traitors with crabs to the Prince Andrew Plan: the 10 best SNL UK sketches so far
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Traitors with crabs to the Prince Andrew Plan: the 10 best SNL UK sketches so far

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Sexy dad swap, the anti-ageing cream so good everyone will think your husband should be in prison, and the long con to make King Charles look good … you can’t say Saturday Night Live UK hasn’t gone there! Here are the best skits

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Tenor. : languagehat.com

languagehat.com·languagehat·18 days ago
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Peter Phillips’ LRB review (Vol. 48 No. 8 · 7 May 2026; archived) of Composers in the Middle Ages, edited by Anne-Zoé Rillon-Marne and Gaël Saint-Cricq, is very enlightening to me, since I’d forgotten what little I once knew about medieval music; I’m…

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Interstitium, Apoplast. : languagehat.com

languagehat.com·languagehat·19 days ago
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I learned a couple of new words from this fascinating “interactive” NY Times article by Abraham Z. Cooper, a pulmonary and critical care physician and associate professor of medicine (archived versions don’t seem to work, because of the interactivity, but…

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‘Sung by a silver robot from 1984!’ The 11 biggest bangers in Eurovision 2026
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‘Sung by a silver robot from 1984!’ The 11 biggest bangers in Eurovision 2026

Delta Goodrem, rappers on scooters and a Lion spray-painted silver from head to toe … as Europe’s pop circus returns amid protests and pyrotechnics, we pick the songs set to dominate this year’s grand final. Bangaranga!

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Veltman’s Lunatik. : languagehat.com

languagehat.com·languagehat·20 days ago
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Russian лунатик [lunátik] and English lunatic are the faux-est of faux amis: the English word means only ‘madman’ and the Russian one only ‘sleepwalker’; I should really have called the post Veltman’s Sleepwalker, but that would have sounded weird to me,…

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What’s in a Swedish Surname? : languagehat.com

languagehat.com·languagehat·21 days ago
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Nils William Olsson has a paper called “What’s in a Swedish Surname?” (Swedish American Genealogist 1.1 [1981]) that is, as you might expect, about Swedish surnames. I’ll quote some bits that particularly interested me:

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Robert E. Tanner’s Pushkin. : languagehat.com

languagehat.com·languagehat·22 days ago
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Venya Gushchin reviews (for the Brooklyn Rail, “an independent forum for arts, culture, and politics throughout New York City and far beyond”) what sounds like an interesting translation-cum-adaptation of one of the most famous works of Russian literature:

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‘My dad cannot see me on stage doing this’: will the stigma around boys who dance ever shift?
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‘My dad cannot see me on stage doing this’: will the stigma around boys who dance ever shift?

As the pioneering BalletBoyz company celebrates its 25th anniversary and Billy Elliott returns to the stage, the male dance landscape appears transformed from where it was at the turn of the century. But a certain macho dismissiveness remains …

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Gold Medal of Philology. : languagehat.com

languagehat.com·languagehat·23 days ago
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Ah, in my younger days how I would have lusted for the Gold Medal of Philology! To get up on a stage before a glittering international crowd and give a carefully prepared speech humbly acknowledging that my ground-breaking work on the Indo-European…

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Gymkhana. : languagehat.com

languagehat.com·languagehat·26 days ago
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Another word that keeps popping up in our reading of Paul Scott’s Raj Quartet (see this post) is gymkhana, and eventually I thought to investigate it, since I was fuzzy about both meaning and etymology. Wiktionary says:

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On Pedantry. : languagehat.com

languagehat.com·languagehat·27 days ago
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Back in 2020 I posted about the etymology of pedant; now I offer a very interesting review by Clare Bucknell (NYRB, May 14, 2026; archived) of On Pedantry: A Cultural History of the Know-It-All by Arnoud S. Q. Visser.…

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