by David West | Oct 13, 2026 | News
The word drone has a history stretching back many centuries, although its modern technological meaning is surprisingly recent. It began not with aircraft, but with bees. In Old English, the male honeybee was called a drān, which developed into the Middle English...
by David West | Oct 12, 2026 | News
The word asylum has travelled an unusually long way: from an ancient Greek religious sanctuary, through medieval churches, to psychiatric hospitals and modern refugee law. It derives from the Greek asylon (ἄσυλον), meaning “inviolable place” or “sanctuary.” The word...
by David West | Oct 11, 2026 | News
Now one of the things you can do with word of the day is enhance your hit rate by choosing words that search engines are looking for. Now I may be mistaken but I think Trump will get a few views. The Oxford Shorter English Dictionary (SOD) gives me four definitions...
by David West | Oct 10, 2026 | News
My book publicist insisted that I have a website and that I post something every day. Whenever I have something relevant to my books, I will obviously post about that. I have been running an on this day series because as a writer of historical crime fiction I have an...
by David West | Oct 9, 2026 | News
Things are gradually clicking into place for publication of Serpent’s Teeth, the fifth book in the Sir Anthony Standen Adventures, on the 1st of November. Meanwhile Cade’s Point, the sixth book, is in first draft awaiting Claire’s scrutiny. Unfortunately not only has...
