Given that there are more than 80 million blogs out there, according to the Web-tracking site Technorati, with roughly 15.5 million of them active, blogebrity is quite a bizarre phenomenon anyway.

Usage note: instruct is less forceful than order, but weightier than advise

There was a ragged noise of bleating from the flock penned in a corner of the yard. Two red-armed men seized a sheep, hauled it to a large bath that stood in the middle of the yard, and there held it, more or less in the bath, whilst a third man baled a dirty yellow liquid over its body.

And priuie spials plast in all his way, / To weete what course he takes, and how he fares […]