Today’s one-minute etiquette lesson

February 24, 2026

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Today’s one-minute etiquette lesson

January 27, 2026

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It’s the most wonderful time of the year

December 15, 2025

This one is for my fellow Anglophile Yankees.

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Today’s four-minute history lesson

November 5, 2024

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English major jocularity

July 9, 2024

For further amusement: When Insults Had Class

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The sun never sets on the English language

August 18, 2020

For my fellow English majors and all lovers of language.

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Jane Dough

August 13, 2013

The last time I was in England, Charles Darwin’s face was on the ten-pound note. The Bank of England’s new design is a great improvement, and guaranteed to warm the hearts of Austen lovers everywhere.

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The new improved ten-pound note is scheduled to debut in 2017. And if you’re dying to know whose face will grace the new five-pound note, you can check it out here.

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