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The title says it all. I have my estimable colleague Wendell Kimper to thank for this one. Coffee & Hazelnuts: 9/10 As the first mout...

Some more Ritter Sport. The first two I picked up and reviewed in Marburg at the DGfS conference but must not have got round to posting. The...

If you're a linguist - any kind of linguist - then you, like me, will probably have received an email from the Open Journal of Modern L...

There will be aspects of grumpy rant to this post, but in order to contextualize it I'll need to do a little autobiographical sketch fir...

Following the publication of this , giving the amounts spent on wine by the different Cambridge colleges, I thought someone ought to compare...

In my brief jaunt to Bamberg & Würzburg last month, I only managed to pick up one new Ritter Sport to road-test. And it was a pretty goo...

This blog has got awfully serious, hasn't it? Time to talk about chocolate again. Today's instalment of the Ritter Sport ratings co...

My little Journal of Historical Syntax has been in existence for a year and a half now. The Executive Committee of the LSA has requested so...

The Pirate Party UK asked me to write a piece for them on Open Access. You can find it here: http://www.pirateparty.org.uk/blog/2013/mar/3...

In a previous post I've blogged about my inexplicable affection for railways, especially abandoned ones. It may then come as no surpris...

This semester I've been using Prezi as a visual aid in my lectures. I decided it would be a useful exercise to summarize my thoughts on...

Greetings (and ratings) from Stuttgart, where everything is closed on Sundays. (Ah, Catholic Europe, how I love thee.) Waldbeer Joghurt: ...

I wasn't planning to write anything more on the issue of job security, but I've been really pleasantly surprised by the number of pe...

Update, 17th March 2021: I wrote this post nearly a decade ago, and have since become convinced that it's the single worst thing I'v...

Went to Norway this month. Went on the train via Germany, just so I could get some Ritter Sport on the way. What? Kakaosplitter: 9/10 Th...

I've just finished reading David Bellos's recent book on translation, 'Is That a Fish in your Ear?' (Penguin, 2011). It verg...

So, I arrived in Berlin yesterday and made my way immediately to a rather special place: the Ritter Sport Bunte Schokowelt ('colourful ...

A while back (actually a couple of decades), Geoffrey Pullum published a piece called 'Some lists of things about books'. You can fi...