Making words work better
With the 23rd of March marking the anniversary of the first UK lockdown, we look at words around hobbies and pastimes used to fill our…
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Modern usage follows Shakespeare. In the GloWbE corpus (Global Web-based English), in the meantime is 20 times more frequent than in the meanwhile. Two poetic "meanwhiles" And, as I was writing this, the last words of Auden’s Friday’s Child, in memory of the German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, floated into my head: