by fwordsblog | Jul 18, 2011 | Humour
What started out as only an averagely tedious conversation about toast, prompted by Rory admitting he’d achieved nothing all day – apart from painting a bit of the ceiling and watching it dry – other than get up and eat breakfast, plumbed new depths of banality...
by fwordsblog | Jul 13, 2011 | Words & communication
It’s unusual, to say the least, for one person to be both contributor and editor, at the same time, on the same publication. But I once found myself in the situation where I was both editing an industry yearbook (in my capacity as an editor for one company) and...
by fwordsblog | Jul 12, 2011 | Words & communication
Following my rant about the illiterate racist (see previous blog), I had a more gentle laugh at some comical mis-spellings I saw recently. A local farm shop is currently selling “rhubub” while a greasy-spoon café down the road has “Shepards Pie” among its gourmet...
by fwordsblog | Jul 11, 2011 | Words & communication
Like most journalists, I love to see mis-spellings and grammatical aberrations in the public domain: it gives us the chance to get all high and mighty about the state of education today and use the immortal phrase “don’t they teach them anything?” For this...
by fwordsblog | Jul 8, 2011 | Views on the news
I don’t know if it’s a sign of the economic times but suddenly everyone I know seems to be re-training. Steph has just graduated with an honours degree in art – after chucking in her job as a teaching assistant to go to uni in her 40s. Kim is about to give up a...
