Jeremy Butterfield

@JerMButterfield

Fowler. Language, words. Former Editor-in-Chief Collins. Blogger. Hispanist. New book: The Metaphor Zoo oneworld-publications.com/work/the-metap…

York, North Yorkshire jeremybutterfield.com Joined April 2010

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#books

Yours truly gritting teeth before signing 30 copies last week of 'The Metaphor Zoo' at the wonderful Toppings bookshop in York.

toppingbooks.co.uk

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#riddles

Q: What plummets vertiginously but must surely rise again?

A: My stocks and shares ISA.

One has to be in it for the long haul.

Jeremy Butterfield @JerMButterfield 15h

#russian #eponyms

I was tickled to see in my Word of the Day for Russian that фломастер is the word for any kind of marker pen or highlighter.

Based on the now defunct brand Flo-Master.

Technically, a 'propietary eponym'.

Jeremy Butterfield @JerMButterfield 2d

#TheArchers Polite reminder: the omnibus will be at 09:15 today.

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'Tender as a mother's parting words'. I look forward to my butcher saying this.

Inspector Whatman: Sleeper Squad @govauctionnews 3d

Last in our series of cartoons featuring early appearances of still-familiar lines is this (surprisingly ugly) drawing by Leonard Raven Hill, published in Punch in 1927.
Butcher: "There you are Miss, one-an'-fourpence, and tender as a mother's parting words."

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