Mark Amery's personal blog covers English grammar oddities, such as how "not" attaches to different verbs after modals, and practical UK personal finance, including why low-coupon gilts can beat fixed-term savings accounts after tax. The author also announces plans to post more often.
Website: https://markamery.com/
Short, well-sourced entries tracing the etymology of individual English words and phrases, citing historical quotations and primary sources. Readers get readable word histories, with some entries reserved for paid subscribers.
A newsletter of essays and interviews that explore climate change, metaphor and language, and philosophical questions such as perception. Readers get reflective, original writing on how we frame global problems like climate justice.
Personal essays by a Japan-based translator and author on everyday Japanese life, language, family history and pop culture memories. Issues blend memoir with cultural observation, often drawing on her book Eight Million Ways to Happiness.
A newsletter exploring word origins, with each issue tracing the etymology of one everyday word alongside a rare vocabulary item and a language curiosity. It draws on sources like the Oxford English Dictionary and historical texts to explain how meanings shifted over time.
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