Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

"Wear masks when going out": The first public statement about the "novel coronavirus"

On mondegreens and eggcorns, and how people talk about them

Treating science as if it were magic in the pandemic and in the climate catastrophe

The need for self-censorship in Jane Austen's "Emma"

A morning of mourning: The marriage of Miss Taylor in Jane Austen's "Emma"

"Would quit Kellnych Hall": From the conditional to the indicative in "Persuasion"