Veruca Salt,patron saint of spoilt – or should that be spoiled – brats.

Is the brat spoilt or spoiled? The debate rages on

Few questions in the English language rankle like the mess of spoil.

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No fanfare for the master plan

One reader is officially brassed-off.

Malcolm Turnbull and Moira Schitt

Pusillanimous? Turnbull’s $50 retort is a soundbite for the ages

Trump might be a bully,but Malcolm Turnbull’s got sesquipedalian loquaciousness on his side.

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Don’t get rammed on the road

Unless those sheep are foxing.

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A great work of power elite-rapture

While the personal ads get course.

At some point,we’ve all fallen victim to Calliope Syndrome.

The moment I realised I had fallen victim to Calliope Syndrome

I thought I knew this word - until an audiobook told me differently.

  • David Astle
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Food flak is just a red herring

And a case of the pot calling the vattentät black.

Gen Z cops the flak for making lower-case language a trend via text-speak. But they’re not the first.

be an anti-capitalist:here’s the case for going full lower-case

Gen Z cops the flak for making lower-case language a trend. But they’re not the first.

  • David Astle
Chris Minns spoke about the operation on Wednesday.

What he says and what he Minns:Deciphering the premier’s sport-speak

No one loves a sporting metaphor like NSW Premier Chris Minns.

  • David Astle
For better or worse,there’s wiggle room in our squiggles.

Quip,elevate,waffle:Verbs are doing strange things right now

This year my inbox has copped a dozen emails from readers either addled or miffed about certain verbs.

  • David Astle