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Hello, Malone!
I love the English language, and exploring it.
Yes, crossword puzzles are great for sending us delving into meanings of words etc and providing entertainment.
I know I can be a bit pernickety about parsing etc but I like things to be just so!

Thanks, Rusty. I always have one slight quibble with Bradford's - which I think is wonderful - as it provides lists/definitions and items fall into categories ('bats', say), but we never know why some of the items are included. They've obviously appeared in various crosswords, but I'm sometimes curious to know more.

Malone, Anne Bradford rules!
I am a fan of her book!
Yes, frequently you see a word included and think "why on earth is that included?".
Then you go "digging" and find out that she is perfectly correct.
I enjoy her Dictionary.

Hey, Rusty!
It is strange, though, that most of the "debates" we have here on the forum are so very often based on the English language / grammar, and its nuances and peculiarities!
I do so love a good discussion!
Oh dear! I am having such trouble keeping awake.....yet cannot sleep well when I go to bed.....
I think perhaps once my cat is back home, I may then be able to sleep properly!
Any interesting reports on the US Open?

Hello, Elle!
Yes, it is a wonderful language!
You are worrying about your cat, hence the sleeplessness.
Once he comes home you'll be fine!
I have no tales from Flushing Meadow.
Coco Vandeweghe has won her match.
Rafa Nadal is ahead in his first set.
I have only had the odd look at it.
I have been reading my book.
"Letters from a Suburban Housewife".
It is very good.

Hi, Rusty!
I don't think I have ever watched CoCo Vandeweghe play?
Didn't she reach the Wimbledon Quarter Finals this year......or am i mistakenly thinking of someone else?
She's American?
So what is your book about?
It is a title I haven't heard?
I do like books told in letter form though.
Lyn MacD's were so successful.
Lyn must be in her eighties now?
I'm reading "Dead Man's Time" by Peter James.
A detective murder mystery.....one of the books I recently bought from a new Charity shop opened on the High Street.

Good morning, Elle!
Fine morning here!
Coco did quite well at SW19 as I remember.
She is certainly American.
I do not think you would like my book.
It is the true story of a "classic" murder and the trial and executions.
Known as the "Thompson/Bywaters" case.
The letters written by Edith Thompson were used against her in the trial.
I think Lyn is 83.
I have been unsuccessfully trying to find out how old Anne R Bradford is!
All I can find is she started her Dictionary in 1957 when she was pregnant!
Both her and Lyn live in North London.
Neighbours perchance?

Good morning rusty
All I know is that Anne Rae Bradford was born 1930, but I don't know if Bradford is her maiden name .

No Anne R. Bradford born in 1930 in UK or within 5 years of that date. There's a nice photo of her on amazon.

Hi Ros
My info came from here, so maybe this is wrong ?
https://www.librarything.com/author/bradfordanner