Injury Time
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Skelton, Barbara: Weep No More, 40
Skelton-Wallace, Rowena, 162
Smallwood, Norah, 76, 77–8
Smith, Sydney, 6, 7
smoking, 11, 21, 136–7, 149
Smollett, Tobias George: Humphry Clinker, 165–6
social services, 49–50, 164
Somerset, Guy, 4
Sorescu, Marin, 85–6
soul, the, 98, 99–100
South Gloucestershire Council, 49–50
spelling, mistakes in, 9, 23, 33, 159; see also identities, words
spin-doctors and doctoring, 74, 95, 159
Steiner, George, 38, 46, 53
Stevens, Wallace, 3
Straw, Jack, 74
suicide, 20–21, 26, 115, 139–41, 145
Sunday Times, the, 10, 35, 150
Sutherland, John, 87
Svevo, Italo, 16
Swift, Jonathan, 5; A Modest Proposal, 16, 124
Swinnerton, Frank, 11
Szasz, Thomas, 136
Szymborska, Wislawa, 136
Taylor, D. J.: Trespass, 10
teenage pregnancies, 113–14
television, 21, 84, 113, 151;
commercials, 72
Terence, 131
Teresa of Calcutta, Mother, 133
Thackeray, William
Makepeace, 128
Thailand, 67–8
Thames Water, 36
Thomas, Dylan, 131
Times Literary Supplement, the, 3, 41, 53, 66, 71, 162, 163
Times, The, 38, 39, 53, 57, 60, 106, 110, 129, 134, 145, 146, 150; Diary, 9
Timms, Edward, 79
Tolstoy, Leo, 128
Tomalin, Claire: Jane Austen: A
Life, 22
translation, 62–3, 82, 83, 117–18; perils of, 34–5
Trask, R. L.: Mind the Gaffe, 159
Trimble, David, 60
Tucholsky, Kurt, 9
Turgenev, Ivan Sergeyevich, 42
Twain, Mark, 168
Valéry, Paul, 28
Vansittart, Peter, 56–7
Vaughan, Henry: ‘The Retreat’, 100
Vidal, Gore, 143
Video Appeals Committee, 79
Villiers de l’Isle-Adam, Jean Marie Mathias Philippe Auguste, comte de: Axel, 160
virtual reality and real life, 87, 90
Walker, Murray, 39
Walser, Martin, 63
Watson, Sheila, 81–2
West Briton, the, 60
Wharton, Edith, 61
Whittle, Sir Frank, 151
Wilson, Angus, 66
Winner, Michael, 14
Wittgenstein, Ludwig Josef
Johann, 37–8
Wolfe, Thomas Clayton: Look Homeward, Angel, 106
Woman magazine, 42
Woolf, Leonard, 78
Woolf, Virginia, 108
words, 17–18, 46–7, 74–5, 103, 145, 146, 147, 148–9, 151, 154, 159, 163, 163–4; anagrams, 53, 91; malapropisms, 35, 39, 57–9, 59 – 61; misapprehended, 35, 57, 81; misconstrued, 34–5, 35; misheard, 52, 53, 56, 57; mispronounced, 104, 105; misread, 56; misspellings and misprints, 53, 59, 104–5, 105, 106, 153, 159; misused, 59; puns, 3–4, 18–19; 75, 91; see also language; spelling
Wordsworth, William, 87; ‘The World is too much with us’, 119
Wright, Kit, 28
writers and writing, 9, 10, 11–12, 14, 16, 20, 48–9, 53, 62, 66, 71, 73, 86, 123, 154, 155, 157–9, 165, 167; see also poetry
X, Dr, 168
Yeats, W. B., 131, 142
Young, Sir George, 147–8
Zeitgeist, 100, 104, 124, 133, 149, 157
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