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There's nothing quite like getting to the Northern Line platform at Tottenham Court Road only to be told that the Northern Line is now completely suspended due to faulty communications equipment. :-( I had Aliza in her carrier (not the buggy--did make it easier to manoeuvre, and TCR is impossible with a buggy--then again if I'd had it, I probably would have got a bus to Euston in the first place--but I ended up wishing I'd had somewhere to put my bags).

I did make it home via the Piccadilly Line and buses plus a bit of walking. I did leave one of my Tesco bags on the bus though, doh! (contents: apples, bottle of water, Sunday's papers--nothing crucial, but a little annoying). Aliza was not entirely happy with the length of the journey, in particular the bus to Kings Cross.

The weekend has been fairly dull otherwise. Aliza has been cute. She needs another bath now thanks to sweating so much, but it can wait till the morning. I've watched some Homicide on DVD.

Oh, and I think her hair is coming in curly, there are a couple of little curls now :)

I picked up a copy of Foyle's Philavery in Foyles today.

1) I know too many of the words already. I can feel smug about my vocabulary now. (Quite a few of the words are derived from Greek or Latin, so can be worked out, but even so that means I know a fair number of Greek and Latin roots.) (Of course, if we're going to get into roots, "lexis" is Greek for word--as in lexicon. I've always liked that. Except, of course, the prefix a- means 'no', so my name means "no word". Very un-apt. ;) )

2) I have discovered at least 2 errors. Well, one definite error/misprint: "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog" is not the most familiar panagram in English, as it's not a panagram--it's missing s. The sentence is usually "lazy sleeping dog". Second was not so much an error per se. It's true that Nasta'liq was developed for Arabic, but today it's mainly used for Persian (Farsi) and Urdu, which are both written in variants of the Arabic script. (The other interesting thing about Nasta'liq is that it's incredibly difficult to typeset because the joining rules are very complex. Most Urdu and Farsi websites are in the Arabic-style Naskh script because of the rendering difficulties.)