Category Archives: New words

Google (verb)

Posted on February 19, 2013 by Houyhnhnm

February 2013: a student in Year 9 suggesting to a friend to “Google the word in the dictionary” – “Google” meaning nothing more than “look up”, even in a – shock horror – book.

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“Hans Keller and Internment” by Alison Garnham

Posted on December 26, 2011 by Houyhnhnm

Garnham’s book ‘tells’ (see below for more on how) the story of the Austrian émigré musician, writer and broadcaster Hans Keller from his beginnings in pre-War Vienna to his bursting onto the British musical scene in the late 40s. She … Continue reading →

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“On the Road” by Jack Kerouac

Posted on December 23, 2011 by Houyhnhnm

A sustained poem, genuinely great in that it combines a modern(ist) absence of overall narrative, and a concentration on the modern, young, world, with a profound literary resonance both explicit (references to e.g. Le Grand Meaulnes & Proust), and implicit, … Continue reading →

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Ingreeds

Posted on August 30, 2011 by Houyhnhnm

Sloanes in Tesco’s: “We’ll buy cheap ingreeds.”

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Resomation

Posted on August 30, 2011 by Houyhnhnm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14114555

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