Walter Nash

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Words and wisdom: sounds across the sea

2021-06-28

Walter Nash pronounces on transatlantic (mis)understandings.

Words & wisdom: a spanner in the curriculum

2020-04-08

Walter Nash says 'ludo' is for playing, not declining.

Words & wisdom

2015-06-12

Walter Nash between expressions of Political Correctness and Foolish Euphemisms.

Words & wisdom: boilerplate

2013-11-12

Who would forgo, for the sake of a little convenience, the struggle with words? asks Walter Nash

words & wisdom: more or less quotable quotes

2012-11-09

The sad destiny of great words, says Walter Nash, is that someone will always find a way of reducing them to little words.

Words & wisdom: the throne of denmark question

2012-05-23

Walter Nash refelcts on the impossibility of expressing reality without shaping it.

Kind words and corrupt thinking

2012-05-10

There may be good social excuses for a euphemism, says Walter Nash, but there are grotesque and dangerous inventions that stand at a cool distance from harsh facts.

Words & Wisdom: Negatory and the ‘middling negative’

2012-05-08

In the first of a series of essays Walter Nash takes a sideways, but positive, view of the English negative.