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• ↓ Spenser, Scott, and the Erroneous Origins of ‘Derring-Do’
• ↓ The Literary Legacy of the Isle of Portland
• ↓ On Welsh Rarebit and Just Desserts
• ↓ Mrs Malaprop, Dogberry, and the Misuse of Words
• ↓ Cupid Playing Bo-Peep in Stella’s Breasts: Sidney’s Sonnet 11
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"Some words arise purely by accident. Indeed, even names are sometimes formed because of a mistake: the most famous example is probably Imogen, which is thought to have come about because the Celtic name Innogen (meaning ‘maiden’ or ‘daughter’) was misread as ‘Imogen’."

"It’s all Shakespeare’s fault: the name ‘Innogen’ is listed in early stage directions for Much Ado about Nothing, where she’s the silent wife of Leonato and the mother of Hero. But she has no spoken lines and is completely cut from most modern editions of the play, so most people haven’t heard of her. What they do remember is the character Imogen (as it’s usually spelt) who appears in Cymbeline. But ‘Imogen’ was probably originally ‘Innogen’."

"I was down in Dorset last week, so I thought I’d blog about that this week. Specifically, I thought I’d look into the significance the Isle of Portland has in the annals of English literature. If you’d be expecting Thomas Hardy to figure prominently, you’d be right – though Portland takes us to one of his lesser-known and more bizarre books."

"I was in north Wales last week, having a little holiday, when I stumbled upon a book in a Caernarfon charity shop that I should really already have owned. Eric Partridge’s Usage and Abusage was first published in 1947 but much of Partridge’s advice about good English still holds good today, and deserves its place beside the Brothers Fowlers’ The King’s English on the shelves of any grammatical stickler and pedant."

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Spenser, Scott, and the Erroneous Origins of ‘Derring-Do’

The Literary Legacy of the Isle of Portland

On Welsh Rarebit and Just Desserts

Mrs Malaprop, Dogberry, and the Misuse of Words

Cupid Playing Bo-Peep in Stella’s Breasts: Sidney’s Sonnet 11