Snippets of social history from newspapers and other sources. Back in 2011, I wrote a post about Louisa Lawson. In support of the digitisation of her ground-breaking newspaper,. That project was successfully crowd-sourced through the efforts of Donna Benjamin. And editions are now accessible via Trove.

Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, Speech Analysis, and some letters to strangers. A severe self-discipline and abstention from all forms of indulgence. It is used typically on religious issues. The girl that won the National History contest is very ascetic. She won t accept an invitation to any party during the semester. The ascetics of my community never want to play with us.