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The NHS is, depending on your viewpoint, either a shining example of a caring and noble society or a germ-ridden drain on national resources. Ben Lawrence took this photograph on a bus in Yorkshire and changed my whole outlook. Maybe Fox is right about this “socialist” menace. I...
And that’s the spelling mishaps, not to mention the Needless Capitalisation, for now.
A colleague has just asked me if it is correct to contract “they are” in the phrase “if there are any questions”. His phonetic instinct was to use “there’s” but he correctly deduced that this was a contraction of “there is” and wouldn’t match the plural object. The contraction “t...
Reasons Why Regional Newspapers Must Never Die, Vol. 1: This heartwarming tale of youth power from the Manchester Evening News… Schoolboy spots street sign blunder A SCHOOLBOY fears spelling is on the road to ruin after a street sign blunder. ...
You can pay for your cardboard junk food any way you like… Admittedly, this removes quite a major option. I love a good ‘accept’/'except’ catastrophe. This p...
This is quite hard to get your head around. Thanks to bob the bolder who uploaded this picture. Misspellings will happen from time to time, but a bit of consistency should be the least one can expect. Why vary the endings of ‘interior’ and ‘exterior’ when they’re the same phonetically? Even the...
They say alcohol dulls the senses… The proprietor of this Manchester ale tavern, which is close to my heart so shall not be named and shamed, had clearly had a few too many of those oxymoronic permament guest ales when reaching for the piece of chalk.
We’re used to being baffled by misplaced apostrophes in the wider world by now, but when they crop up in soap operas too it creates a whole new level of intrigue. ...
I’m a big, big pie lover (I’ve eaten some bigger than my own face). But like any upright citizen, I only love them when the filling is spelled correctly. O...
Good old Jeremy Kyle, he’s got the best job in the world. He wheels out the most stupid and awful people his researchers can find and then humiliates them so he and his audience can feel superior. ...
While reading the BBC’s report on the possibility of Mark Ramprakash’s return to test cricket, I saw this cracking example of an Eggcorn. “I...
It would be terribly insensitive to make fun of this plaque… Prostrate Cancer????, originally uploaded by revnev. I’m going for a lie down.So I’ll leave that with you, shall I?
