confused of calcutta

…goes the headline of the Economist’s Special Report on opensource business. And how nice, I can actually link to it and you can read it for free.
Lots of good stuff there. Like “A world in which communication is costly favours collaborators working alongside each other; in a world in which it is essentially free, they can [...]

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The Man In the Doorway’s question on the usage of learnt versus learned reminded me of one of my favourite books, Fowler’s Modern English Usage. Here are two examples why:
Page 522 of my version, when discussing the use of respective(ly) goes on to say:

B. FOOLPROOF USES
The particular fool for whose benefit each r. is inserted [...]

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I went for my usual Saturday morning constitutional, a walk into town, coffee (lots of) and a browse through the charity shops, I think they call them thrift shops in the US. Probably only to be found in the “West”, I can’t remember ever seeing one in India.
And I bought a secondhand copy of Rime of [...]

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