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• alex on Embarrassingly Bad: OK unruly kid, I'll behave like a harrassed and grumpy sixth-form teacher and look it up again and tell you that it can also mean petal. But isn't the...
• Phil Edwards on Embarrassingly Bad: At the risk of sounding like an unruly kid in an English lesson, "a flower, thorned, bloomed [as] a blade" doesn't work (botanically) - we go from a f...
• alex on Embarrassingly Bad: It can also mean the shoot of any plant; or the leafy part of the leaf as opposed to the stalk (cf. German Blatt, Dutch blad, which also mean a leaf o...
• AitchGee on Embarrassingly Bad: I wonder how many thorned flowers have lanceolate (i.e. blade-shaped) leaves? The immediate association made by linking 'thorn' and 'flower' is surel...
• spout on Labour’s Future: Interesting article. You assume that Labour are a plausible alternative to the Tories in England - although their right-wing drift and warmongering...

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