May 2011

As a copywriter you often get to try out the product or service you’re writing about. And this is a good thing because it means you can experience the product or service in the same way a customer does, which makes it a helluva lot easier to write about. [caption id="attachment_1698" align="alignleft" width="180" caption="Battersea Power Station - Red - Jayson Lilley"][/caption] It...

In a recent blog post about the Evolving English exhibition, I mentioned Polari. Polari (or alternatively palari, parlare, parlary) was a secret language or gay slang, popular with the British gay community from about 1900 until the 1970s, and made famous by the 1960s radio show Round the Horne with Kenneth Williams. But what are its origins? Well, Polari is a complex...

If you’re in the area of Londinium between now and April 3rd, get yourself down to the British Library for their Evolving English: One Language, Many Voices exhibition. The exhibition explores the beginnings of Anglo Saxon right through to current rap music and shows how English has evolved over the last 1500 years from its small island origins to become one...