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a plug for St. John’s

In past years, there has been a broadcast of a Passiontide service from St. John’s College, Cambridge on Radio 3. I was delighted to find that the College has made this year’s service available as an audiocast: http://www.sjcchoir.co.uk/ I was … Continue reading

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What brings people here?

I did some analysis of the apache logs for this site to see what search terms had led people here. The commonest search was for guitar chords to The Wheels on the Bus. I’ve put such seekers out of their … Continue reading

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Composers in the British National Corpus

I have recently come across this intriguing graphical representation of the frequency of words in the British National Corpus, a corpus of spoken and written British English dating from the early 1990’s. As it includes proper names, I tried various … Continue reading

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what the stats tell me

I generated a stats page for the first year of this blog and have been perusing it with some interest, despite my well-founded reluctance to take website stats at face value. I have tried to exclude most spiders, robots and … Continue reading

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what have I learned?

It’s now just over a year since I started this blog, and time maybe to review some aspects of the experience. I intend also to analyse some usage statistics in another posting. a) I originally expected this to be little … Continue reading

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