Back in the dear old Dark Ages, when all was umbrous, the French borrowed words from the Germans. Some of these words began with a W, which the French, being French, found hard to pronounce and changed to a G. But not all the French did this. The northern Frenchmen …
Yesterday whilst waiting for the Weaver to return, I was listening to some random music on the radio and on came David Bowie’s song Modern Love, and I was suddenly struck by the rhetorical arrangement of the chorus. Anaphora is the technical term for starting a series of clauses with …
