To Edinburgh for the Festival at the weekend - well, really for the Fringe. Stayed with H in her lovely Portobello flat, waking up to the view of Arthur’s Seat from her living room window ( Read more... )

From Charlie Connelly's Attention All Shipping (thanks to gramarye1971 for the rec):

Thomas Urquart of Cromarty, C17th translator of Rabelais, went in for made-up words. "'Amblygonosphericalls', 'extrinsecall', 'grediftal', 'bagrediffiu', 'pubkegdaxesh' and 'obliquangular', for example, all appeared in the space of one paragraph in his book Trissoetras, and ( Read more... )