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 | Jun 16, 2011 | Words & communication
Being freelance is good in that, in theory, given a certain degree of knowledge, you can write about pretty much anything. The subject matter is as wide as your interests – and mine are fairly broad-ranging. Being a starving freelance is also good in that it...
by fwordsblog | Feb 27, 2011 | Words & communication
I’ve been inactive on the blogging front for a fair while because I’ve been working full-time for a publishing company, writing a daily business news bulletin. Somehow the complexity of business news and the pressures of daily deadlines don’t lend themselves to...
by fwordsblog | Sep 9, 2010 | Words & communication
Rather a comical situation yesterday at a press conference in London about a trade show being held in Frankfurt in January. As with all trade shows there is great emphasis on design trends – consumer products of all kinds follow shortly after catwalk fashion and...
