‘Ratted’ Australian VW vans at Volkswagen rally
English is a pretty flexible language, as these ‘ratted’ Volkswagen vans which were originally driven in Australia and were on display at a VW rally in eastern England, proves.
‘Ratted’ means that the paintwork is deliberately left in a pretty …
March 30, 2010
English civil war use of English
This article discusses some of the problems that arise with the use of English when writing the dialogue for a short story or novel that is set in the English civil war period of the 1640s, or is set in …
March 16, 2010
Tricky writing technique
This opening paragraph in a short story about the English civil war which I’m writing identifies the main character, the location, the period in which the story is set and even identifies the conflict in the story.
It’s economical – …