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DANISH BIRTHDAY SCREAMS. Annalisa called my attention to another Danish baking challenge—–kagemand—-that she learned about from the Great British Baking Show. This wikipedia entry says: “Kagemand is a Danish cake shaped like a girl or boy which is traditionally eaten … Continue reading →

LITTLE ANNALISA’S MISTAKE ABOUT VETERANS DAY. This happened during the period when Annalisa knew her letters but was just learning to read. There came a time about this time of year when Annalisa made a major effort in cutting out … Continue reading →

ANOTHER ALTERNATIVE ENDING TO MEAURE FOR MEASURE—PRESERVING THE NUN’S HONOR. I have posted several times on alternative endings to Measure for Measure. Mary Jane recently told me she had come across another changed ending. In this production, when the Duke … Continue reading →

A TRIUMPH FOR DANISH BAKING AÆBLESKIVER. Michael Caines in the TLS (October 26, 2018) reviews the new season (number 9) of The Great British Bake-off. He says: “This season, the ninth, has contestants—now far less amateurish than they used to … Continue reading →

“BOSS E MAIL” Nikki Wallace proudly says that one substitute for exclamation points that she didn’t use was “boss e mail”, which she describes as “immediate terse replies lacking context or punctuation, usually sent to underlings”.

GOING A MONTH WITHOUT USING EXCLAMATION POINTS. I posted here a couple months ago about an article by Katherine Bindley in the Wall Street Journal on the difficulty of a decision not to to use an exclamation point in an … Continue reading →

“GOMAN YOUNG WEST”. Among the possibilities for Scrabble vocabularies would be to permit puns or wordplay as part of the Agreed Dictionary—the kinds of words that appear in British crossword puzzles. I had forgotten until now that one afternoon when … Continue reading →

ARE BERT AND ERNIE GAY? The debate over whether Bert and Ernie are gay has broken out again. Google turns up a number of articles on the subject just for today. Here is a Sesame Street statement on the subject … Continue reading →