26 Annual Speech Archives

25 Oct
2010

Howard Jacobson at the 26 Annual Speech

Published in: reviews
October 25, 2010

Howard Jacobson turned up to the 26 Annual Speech. It’s fair to say that some other people might had found a good excuse not to, if they’d just won the Booker prize, done 35 interviews, lost two…

28 Sep
2010

26 Annual Speech

Published in: news from 26
September 28, 2010

Howard Jacobson is a brilliant speaker and a leading author, journalist and broadcaster. His writing is both serious and very funny. Or as he once put it, ‘”I’m a Jewish Jane Austen.” On 12 October the winner…

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Language, like nature, flows and adapts, but sometimes it needs a helping hand. And what remarkable hands continue to help spread the beauty of @RobGMacfarlane and @JackieMorrisArt's wonderful The Lost Words. Suspect these performances will be magical https://t.co/o8fpzLf50U

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Ed Prichard @ed_prichard·

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@26characters this is a nice addendum to the malaprop thread https://t.co/bLd6xKHcF8

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Fraser Southey @FraserSouthey·

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@Andrew_Arnold @26characters My mother is a regular Mrs Malaprop. For example, she always calls paracetemol 'parametacrecol'. Her best was calling 'The Whirling Dervishes' the 'Twirling Devonshires.'

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Gemma Perkins @gemperkins·

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@26characters I used to say “I’m only chocking” instead of joking. My family have used the phrase ever since.

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Andrew Arnold @Andrew_Arnold·

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@beccamagnus @26characters Ours was named the 'dobbler' - still is!