Etymology of ‘chock-a-block’ [pt. 2]
[Part 1] According to the official story, the English idiom ‘chock-a-block’ comes from nautical…
Etymology of ‘chock-a-block’ [pt. 1]
The English colloquialism ‘chock-a-block’ (very crowded) and the Turkish expression çok kalabalık are virtually…
Meanings of the Mote and the Beam [pt. 4]
[See part 1; part 2; part 3] A strange coincidence: the Greek word for…
Meanings of the Mote and the Beam [pt. 3]
[See part 1; part 2] I have not yet found an interpretation of Matthew…
Meanings of the Mote and the Beam [pt. 2]
[See part 1] Translating Matthew 7, ‘And why do you look to the splinter…
Meanings of the Mote and the Beam [pt. 1]
The mystery of Matthew 7:3‒5, the passage of the Sermon on the Mount containing…
Plato’s ‘γενναῖον ψεῦδος’
According to a common interpretation, in Republic Socrates says that the rulers of the…
Wildcard strings for Academic Copyeditors/Regular Expressions
Here’s a list of basic regular expressions/MS Word wildcard search strings, useful for academic…
Babel editing 