General History

A message from Dean Swift

There will be fewer posts during the next few weeks as we are assembling and compiling etc. a book. It is a selection taken from the six hundred or so posts we have published in the last three years. Please have patience. And here is a Gollum-like trick question for our bloggers:-

Who says this? ‘Je ne suis pas ce que je suis

Answer: A man following a donkey.  (first person singular of verbs Être and Suivre)