Lois Elsden
WRITER
I must go back to the great Russians
I’m just listening to an item on the radio about a woman in her fifties who is learning Russian in order to be able to read some of the greats of Russian literature in Russian. She took us to her first language class where the students are given pictures of typical Russian items such as […]
MoreWord of the day – tiny…. is it Irish?
Tiny is quite a tiny word, you could, I guess extend it to tinier and tininess, but it is basically quite a small word and although it comes from Middle English, tine, no-one seems sure where it came from before that. Is it associated with the word tine, a prong of a fork? The two […]
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