I would sooner wear my hat in church or drink my tea from the saucer than use the word normalcy in ordinary conversation or writing.* But that is merely a personal crotchet. I understand perfectly ...

What follows is a list, in no particular order, of some of my other reading habits and “crotchets,” to use an old-fashioned term. Perhaps you will recognize a few of your own. Hard- vs.

Everyone understands that fashions come and go. We can live in hope that the menswear of the 1970s will never return. Those neckties as wide as lobster bibs. The plaid jackets. Leisure suits. What ...

"I do unique crotchets because I have always wanted to be a better version of what my mother used to be; I wanted to make her proud," she says. Her starting capital was Ushs8000 which she used to ...

Merchant of Venice, I. i. ABOUT five-and-twenty years ago, when I was assistant librarian at Harvard University, much of my time was occupied in revising and bringing toward completion the ...

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Clive Myrie has sparked a BBC Proms storm after saying that the enjoyment of classical music should not be restricted to a “select few” who understand “crotchets and quavers”. The BBC ...

The guitar and piano play mainly straight crotchets and the bass emphasises beats 1 and 3 in the verse before moving to crotchets in the chorus.