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 | Douglas Watkinson February 14, 2019 |
Here’s to the Pig…
Going Home No, not me, in any sense of the phrase, but my future daughter-in-law. She and my son are off to Lanzhou for Chinese New Year. It’s the year of the pig, fyi. I thought getting around Shanghai last year was pretty tough, given that we did so in a week of national holidays, but… There’s a…
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| Douglas Watkinson March 13, 2018 |
Real Hawks and the Spy
This week I’m abandoning Nathan Hawk, whose latest appearance on BookBub (Haggard Hawk, the first I ever wrote) brought a staggering 60 odd thousand downloads, and many requests to follow it up with another gruesome crime to solve. Which I will do, just as soon as I’ve finished The Fire Pit. Meantime, at least for a day while…
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| Douglas Watkinson August 1, 2017 |
Who put the ‘i’ in mischievous?
I’m always banging on about misuse of language, but my current beef is with the word ‘mischievous’. Who put the ‘i’ in it and made it ‘mischiev-i-ous’? It doesn’t really fall into the category of language reshaping itself with use. It doesn’t make it easier to pronounce, better to look at, easier to spell, or give it a…