PhotoReflect

click photo to enlarge One of the photographic themes that has arisen down the years on this blog is public signs. I have enjoyed quite a ...

click photo to enlarge I've done my share of mudlarking as this post of 2010 explains. The usual definition of a mudlark is someon...

click photo to enlarge I'm not, in general, someone who likes familiar slang, particularly that which applies to a line of work, an i...

click photo to enlarge The meaning of the word "graffito" has become modified in the past fifty or so years. During the first h...

click photo to enlarge I've long been fascinated by the way that a word can fall out of use. In a blog post of  2009 I reflected on ...

click photo to enlarge Have you noticed how holidays are now frequently described as an "escape"? In some journalism and advert...

click photo to enlarge When I was young and growing up in the Yorkshire Dales one of the things that I found puzzling was the use of the wor...

click photo to enlarge There may be good reasons for calling a Mexican restaurant Coco, but none immediately spring to mind. I came across t...

click photo to enlarge Did you know that innuendo is the Italian word for suppository? Or that there are some that are wise and there are o...

click photo to enlarge The pleasure to be found in language is limitless. You can learn history through language, conceive beauty by arrangi...