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Posts Tagged ‘GAA’

Sport enriches even when we’re made to feel poor

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

Did you ever pull your hair out looking for something?
You’re sure you had the thing, positive you left in a drawer but then you go and root around for it, all the while dreaming up all the other places you might have thought to put it just in case you were foolish enough to lose [...]

When grammar mistakes can be funny

Friday, December 5th, 2008

A crisis tends to change the way we speak, if only because previously unheard words and phrases such as sub-prime, recession and future yields become so widespread that it’s only financial and political junkies that use them. The taxi driver knows a boom from a bust as much as the local publican knows how the [...]