In today's Economist, one article says "Spain has suffered more covid-19 deaths than any country save Italy." That seemed very strange to me. Then I looked it up and found that one meaning of "save" is "but or except for".

Is "It is an honour to be interviewed in this esteemed blog." grammatically correct?

@Yashas It is correct but the statement could be taken negatively, especially for people such as myself who read too much into what is NOT printed in a statement.

Laying on too much praise? 'honour' implies it is an acclaimed blog. 'esteemed' identifies it as an acclaimed blog. This is unnecessary unless the blog is written by royalty or someone of high stature.

Unnecessary redundancy, .. my tpo

typo..

Oh no SP is about to lay into me for that one...

nah, pal. Just lurking :-)

:) I'm an awful typer.. you should see me in real time

yeah, me too

I need a keyboard with more spacing between the keys

Perhaps, larger keys?

I can hit/see the keys. The standard keyboard has keys too close together. I have big hands/fingers

Possibly so.

I suppose I should google large format keyboards

(Headsmack) DOH!

@GWarner shrug I keep making typos too, and a few I catch, but I'm ignorant of my incompetence otherwise

I don't make that many typos when using a physical keyboard. Recently, however, I've been switching between different keyboards due to different keyboard layouts I have on different computers / operating systems (for some stupid reason), and also because most of my keyboards are 95% functional; i.e., on one keyboard I'm using the right Shift key as the Enter key, and on another I'm using it instead of the Up arrow key (annoying as hell because that's a really common operation).

I have remapped a couple other keys because they've stopped working for no reason. The Up arrow and Enter keys stopped working because the little rubber caps underneath have fallen apart, and I can't replace them as easily (they're glued to the keyboard, and could rip if I tried to take them from other, less important keys).

The problem I often face when using different keyboards is the Y key, which is swapped with Z, and pretty much all symbols are in the wrong places (really annoying when programming). But I'm human and I've adjusted. It takes me a couple of attempts and then I'm "set up" to use a certain keyboard layout. Sometimes I'll use the "default" keyboard I grew up with when I'm typing quickly, like in a game, and introduce mistakes.

@M.A.R. I found one or two that might be interesting to try on Amazon, But mostly there is nothing to be done. I had the opportunity to learn a chorded keyboard 20 or so bought by a employer. But I was too keen on a different perk..

best place to ask for a defintion to an antiquainted phrase? (british origin most likely)

wow nevermind, i hadnt tried to get a definition for that phrase for, oh, 10 years? google is rife with it now