Tag: Random

I like getting the monthly e-mail from Google telling me how far that I’ve travelled in the month, it’s a reminder that they can see at all times where I am, but I like looking at the numbers. That flippancy would probably irritate at least some privacy campaigners, but there we go. The data above is for the last four years and it makes me feel happy.

But, Google reminded me today just what the impact of Covid-19 was on my travel arrangements in April 2020.

And, yes, this has been my monthly highlight. It’s made for slightly more challenging blogging, I’ve had to start hunting through a lot of older photos and miscellaneous rubbish to amuse myself during the month. And realistically, no-one else.

Further to my post about Recorder Road, I liked the use of the word “housen”.

The above chart (I’ve embedded it, so if there’s nothing there, blame Google) shows how the word usage has fallen back over the twentieth century, although it was very much a late nineteenth century word. The word ‘housen’ is simply the plural of house, which is a more beautiful word than ‘houses’ and although it was never that common it has become pretty much entirely archaic now.

There aren’t many words now which shove an “n” at the end to make a plural, but there used to be. The plural of tree was sometimes ‘treen’, knee was ‘kneen’, shoe was ‘shoon’ and even Shakespeare used the word ‘eyen’ as the plural for eye. And, of course, in German the practice of adding the ‘n’ is still common for many words.

In what world is six sweets one serving?!?!