If you write about language, you’ll cop language in return, via mail and emails.
Letterboxes seem tailor-made for bills and referendum flyers – unless you write a word column for a living. Over winter I received an Egyptian doorknob-hanger, a Tyrolean reprimand, a 1919 novel written by a nine-year old, plus a punctuation poem.
Fact: if you write about language, you’ll cop language in return, via mail and emails. Most days I relish the deluge, though it’s tricky to reply in good time or find the right column to share the miscellany. Neologisms thrive, such as “squilometre”, coined by David Maher: “Squilometre comes from two words, square and kilometre, it refers to the amount of land impacted or rendered unusable by sea level rise, due to global warming.
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