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More than half the world’s 1.6 billion Internet users use languages with scripts not based on the Latin alphabet:
10:12 AM Nov 1st
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Auden’s requirements for a poet: a literary landscape, knowledge of metre, a passion for Icelandic sagas – predictably dismayed Alan Bennett
1:42 AM Oct 31st
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‘Whenever an author seizes on a single element and says that this is the explanation, the key, you know he is wrong.’ – Timothy Garton Ash
5:47 AM Oct 30th
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‘Only at Microsoft do “user-friendly” and “write down this password: E6fQ9UX3uR” appear in the same sentence.’ – David Pogue
2:22 AM Oct 28th
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Earley (as in Earley Gate): ‘clearing where white-tailed eagles fly’ ()
11:29 AM Oct 24th
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Historical Thesaurus of the OED hits the Today programme
12:01 AM Oct 22nd
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See our job ads at and (collections officer)
12:38 PM Sep 11th
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Finding ordinary books designed by Bruce Rogers
4:38 AM Sep 11th
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The pleasures of cleaning a garden bench
3:18 AM Aug 9th
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Tea-time contrasts. Judith: scone, jam; me: watercress, spring onions, vinaigrette
8:23 AM Aug 8th
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This week's Oxford Times gem: 'Miss Oxfordshire voted for herself more than 1,000 times'
4:33 PM Jul 31st
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Two very different shows: 18th-century Jodhpur paintings at the BM; Jeff Koons at the Serpentine: but both about surface and reality
3:28 PM Jul 21st
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Edition snobbery: ‘Reardon offered him a volume of the Oxford Pocket Classics. “I prefer the Wunder, please.” ’ G. Gissing, New Grub Street
12:29 AM Jul 15th
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Headline gem from the Oxford Times: 'Man said he was a vicar'. Add your own story!
2:12 PM Jul 13th
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Ah, the Sixties! Having fun with New Rail Alphabet
3:46 PM May 15th
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Last few hours in Maya Ubud - saw a kingfisher!
8:16 PM Apr 15th
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Today to stunning Uluwatu temple - much more impressive than Tanah Lot, over-rated backdrop for bridal album shots
8:18 AM Apr 14th
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Where we spent Joe's birthday: and watching the jegog at Bentuyung village
2:50 AM Apr 13th
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Can you do too many temples on Bali? Probably not! But today will be spent by the pool catching up with Gissing's New Grub Street
7:36 PM Apr 10th
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God as usability guru? ‘We have never sent a messenger who did not use his own people’s language to make things clear for them’ Qur’an 14:4
2:13 AM Mar 24th
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