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🕖 Off the Clock

Fortnightly Saturday bonus content—thoughts that fall somewhere between Timeless & Timely, often about language, history, literature, or that are just plain fun.

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A Year’s Worth of Word Nerdiness

A Year’s Worth of Word Nerdiness

A lexical stroll through 2025

Dec 27 • Scott Monty

Old Thoughts for Christmas

Kindness, surprise, generosity, slowing down to savor life, and the triumph of love and hope over hardship

Dec 13 • Scott Monty

That’s Intense

As intense as all get-out

Nov 29 • Scott Monty

Solemn Sound-Sculpted Sentences

Softly, subtly, speech shimmers: alliteration, ancient and artful, awakes attention.

Nov 15 • Scott Monty

A Taste of Immortality

Or, how to eat your heroes

Nov 1 • Scott Monty

The King’s English and the Tyranny of Taste

A reminder from a century ago

Oct 18 • Scott Monty

The Genealogy of “Snake Oil”

Welcome to “Off the Clock,” a little something that lands somewhere between Timeless & Timely.

Oct 4 • Scott Monty

How Drugs Are Named

You might end up with a headache

Sep 20 • Scott Monty

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