Welcome to Clay Lane
Clay Lane is inspired by textbooks written by NL Clay, used in English schools before the educational changes of the 1960s.
It is for people who appreciate our heritage of strong, plain-spoken English from Shakespeare and the King James Bible to Austen, Dickens and Kipling, and who enjoy playing with words, sentences and ideas.
“The course should train pupils to observe, learn more of the world they live in, think clearly, use the imagination and to speak clearly.”
NL Clay, Think and Speak (1929)
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From A Passion for Meddling
If we go back through the Parliamentary debates of the last few reigns, we shall find this singular feature in our national character — the passion for meddling with the affairs of foreigners — more strikingly prominent in every succeeding session. Our history during the last century may be called the tragedy of ‘British intervention in the politics of Europe’.
Confusables Find in Think and Speak
In each group below, you will find words that are similar to one another, but not exactly the same. Compose your own sentences to bring out the similarities and differences between them, whether in meaning, grammar or use.
