How the scales fell from my eyes
I found myself, as always on a Friday, at Discoteca Los Ángeles. Only a hardcore remained by 5am. That included José-María, bibulous olive-oil mill owner, maker of moonshine, aged and…
Etymology – the origin of words
‘Spelk’. It’s one of the thousands of words that I store in my internal library – and when the need arises, it is the word I would naturally elect to…
Mashing it up
Synaesthesia is a neurological condition that mashes up the senses; it evokes involuntary images when words, numbers, music or what have you, are called to mind. Synaesthesia happens when cognitive…
Why can some people spell while others struggle?
Regarding my own ability, is it because my dad taught us children the Greek alphabet before we had started school (and which we can all recite verbatim to this day),…