I have spent most of my career in government service, much of it abroad. I have a degree in English Language and Literature from the University of Oxford and the Diploma in English Language Studies from the UK`s Open University, and am qualified as a teacher of English to foreign learners. I have studied several other languages including French, German, Latin, Arabic and Old and Middle English. My blog, , is mostly, but not entirely, about the English language. I also administer a Facebook group, , which you are welcome to apply to join. Elsewhere on the web I have attempted to write in the constrained style of the `Ouvroir de littérature potentielle` (OULIPO) in and in . I have also created a full set of by figure and mood and showing which are valid and which are not.
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