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Celia's diary: April 2013
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A weblog written by Celia with news, reviews and much more. Thursday, 18 April 2013. The Summerhall Historical Fiction Festival. I am in historical Edinburgh, in a historical building that used to house Edinburgh University's. Veterinary School. I'm writing this in a rather handsome cafe, like a certain other writer in Edinburgh. That's where the similarities between us end. History can be fun! I've planned for a bit of both. Years of experience have taught me to take a belt and braces approach. Things a...
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Celia's diary: August 2010
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A weblog written by Celia with news, reviews and much more. Monday, 23 August 2010. Where does the summer go? Every July, I go to this place, Charney Manor, in Oxfordshire on a kind of writers' retreat/re-charge with fellow members of the Scattered Authors' Society. For me, this marks the beginning of the 'Summer Holidays', except they are often not holidays at all. Last year I was working on re-writes for. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). An Awfully Big Blog Adventure. Amanda Craig, autho...
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Clishmaclaver: A high-octane, adrenaline-fuelled thrill-ride!!!
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Wednesday, 14 October 2009. A high-octane, adrenaline-fuelled thrill-ride! Earlier this week I was indulging in a spot of channel-surfing. Which the Chambers Dictionary delightfully defines as “to switch rapidly between different television channels in a forlorn attempt to find anything of interest”) and settled on one of the myriad reality programmes, in this case following a local police force on the beat. The synopsis proclaimed it as high-octane. 8217;s latest cinematic offering 12 Rounds. With third...
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Clishmaclaver: Barbed words
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Friday, 18 September 2009. There was a discussion in one of our July posts. About new words that are modelled on other established words ( telegenic. Dictionary compilers often stumble upon clumsy word blends that raise a groan (would the sublebrities. However, some similarly constructed coinages must be admired for their incisiveness: they pin down exactly the sense they are intended to convey. One coinage which neatly encapsulates an idea is churnalism. And the idea certainly caused a stir. Word Buzz W...
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Clishmaclaver: Don't cry for me, Clishmaclaver
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Thursday, 27 August 2009. Don't cry for me, Clishmaclaver. I am moving from Chambers to pastures new, so the time has come for me to say goodbye. Many people don’t like to say goodbye. While a similar entreaty for God’s care is made in adieu. From the French, Italian and Spanish respectively, all meaning ‘to God’. Is it because we are reluctant to imply a potentially permanent separation that many other, more optimistic, foreign farewells have been borrowed into the English language? The French au revoir.
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Clishmaclaver: August 2009
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Monday, 31 August 2009. Superfluous, tautological redundancy. I was recently asked if there was a specific term for phrases made up of an acronym followed by a word where that word is the expanded form of the last initial of the acronym. A common example is ‘PIN (Personal Identification Number) number’. Generally speaking these phrases can be classified as pleonasms. Being both curious and empirically-minded, I turned to our corpus, CHIC. Examples (beginning with more common cases) include:. The PIN numb...
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Clishmaclaver: February 2009
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Thursday, 26 February 2009. What have the Finns ever done for us? There is a famous scene in Monty Python’s. In which the leader of an anti-Roman faction asks the question, ‘What have the Romans ever done for us? 8217; The answer, of course, turns out to be quite a lot: sanitation, the aqueducts, education, the roads, wine …. The chief contribution of the Finns to our language has to be the word. A type of zither) or the. Was named after its Finnish developer Linus Torvalds. Add to this the fact that Fin...
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Celia's diary: World Book Day
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A weblog written by Celia with news, reviews and much more. Monday, 4 March 2013. Thursday, March 7th is World Book Day. This year, I will be at the Mount School in York doing a day of talks and workshops. On Tuesday, 5th March, I will be at King Edward VI, Handsworth, who are having their WBD two days before because I can't be in two places at once. I visited King Edward's, Handsworth last year for a day based around my book Pirates! If ever a book leant itself to World Book Day, it is this one. Panels,...
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Celia Rees – links
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An Awfully Big Blog Adventure. Celia Rees websites and pages. Celia's fan page on Facebook. Bloomsbury’s Celia Rees website which includes a Pirates! Mini site, Witch Child website. And information about Sorceress. Allen and Unwin’s author page on Celia Rees. Includes answers to questions about writing. British Council’s contemporary writers page. A great new interview. With Celia by The English Association. Celia’s recommended sites for writers and readers. A useful and wide-ranging book review site.
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Celia's diary: March 2011
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A weblog written by Celia with news, reviews and much more. Wednesday, 23 March 2011. Der Narr und das Madchen. Is the title of. In German. Last week I was on what the Germans term a Reading Tour, going to various schools and venues reading from and talking about my book. I gave up German when I was thirteen, or rather it gave up on me, so it was a good thing that all the groups I met spoke excellent English. According to legend, the alchemist, Dr Faust, rode a wine barrel from the cellar to the street w...
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