Blog / Category: Word stuff

There's recently been revived interest in a story that I think I first heard about in Robert Macfarlane's essay "A Counter-Desecration Phrasebook". Back in 2007 the Oxford University Press...

Tolmens are stones that are both objectively holey and subjectively holy. When they were found by prehistoric peoples in what is now Devon and Cornwall, the neat circular holes in these river...