Kel Richards
Cumber
- Kel Richards •
- 1 June 2005
‘Cumber’ is a rather quaint, old-fashioned word that we don't hear much any more. We still talk occasionally about something being an ‘encumbrance’, but ‘cumber’ (the shorter verb from which this noun is constructed) has largely disappeared.It came into English from Old French around the year 1300, and it had
Bowels
- Kel Richards •
- 1 January 2005
As a young Christian, I was torn between bafflement, amusement and embarrassment when the good old King James Version was read aloud in church, and we heard Paul telling the Philippians that he longed after them “in the bowels of Jesus Christ” (Phil 1:8). I mean, it almost sounds blasphemous,
Partner
- Kel Richards •
- 1 November 2004
In current PPC1 English, the words ‘husband’ and ‘wife’ have been banned and replaced by the single word ‘partner’. I would like to be able to mock this in loud derisive tones as being part of the modern corruption of language. Sadly, the facts get in the way.It turns out
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