Day: August 28, 2011

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That’s the thing Helen, English is so fluid that it is increasingly difficult to state something is correct or not. I am also an editor and, whilst acknowledging predate is not the best word for “to prey upon”, it is now in common enough usage to be accepted. In that case, I would personally hyphenate … Read more

I agree with John and Brian. To predate as in prey would always be used as one word, whereas I would certainly hyphenate pre-date, as in dating from before. I suspect either would be correct, but hyphens are wonderful things for clearing up potential confusion such as this. A similar example would be a football … Read more

Hi all, Spent yesterday with Robert Griffin at various wet places round Newcastle. Lots of waterbirds and birds of prey. We ended up at Stockton in the late afternoon and watched the waders come in the hour or so before high tide: Caspian Tern 1 Crested Tern 3 Gull-billed Tern 10 Red-Necked Avocet 200-300 Eastern … Read more

SUMMER TO AUTUMN IN TROMSØ, N. NORWAY This week the schools started up again—both my Tromsø granddaughters now go to primary school–, at Tromsø Museum the colleagues come back from holidays or fieldwork, and the evenings start to get dark again, after two months of midnight sun. The meadows are still green, mostly freshly mown, … Read more