Language – like – evolves?
Pissed-off Toff explores the recent phenomenon of the ubiquitous filler word ‘like’. Having come down from Cambridge in the early 1980s, my friend Johnny settled and married in Italy. He … Keep Reading
Loser
Pissed-off Toff ruminates on the philosophy contained in a key-fob which used to send his father’s Jack Russell crazy. My father once had a Jack Russell terrier called Wriggle. He … Keep Reading
Busy
In this introductory essay on the topic of language, Pissed-off Toff reveals his detestation of the word ‘busy’ … My late aunt, an aristocrat to the core of her being, … Keep Reading