And that’s how we find ourselves in the fine state of Indiana. One of my favourite films is set there (Breaking Away), as are two of my favourite TV shows (Parks & Recreation and Stranger Things). Watching the Parks and Recreation Department of fictional Indiana town Pawnee (America’s fourth fattest town!) I started musing about the state…
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Do you ever find yourself writing a word or phrase then looking at it as if it were the first time you’d ever encountered it? Every so often, I’ll write that something is full to the gunwales and think, ‘Heck, I need to know exactly what that means and look it up. (It’s a nautical term referring to the upper edge or planking of the side of a boat). I was reading a novel not that long ago, traditionally published by someone quite famous and it was spelt as gunnals. Which made me very cross because I am such a pedant.
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