Near work we’ve got a cafe which operates a loyalty card system. Unfortunately, as they also have a policy of employing non-native English speakers, my attempts to educate them on the subtle errors on that loyalty card have proven fruitless.
Objectionable corners of the English language
2 phrases that thoroughly get my lexicographical hackles / heckles / feckles / schmeckles up (ignoring for a minute my favourite dead horse, the word “sorry”), are the following: “Deeply”: the problem with rampantly overenthusing or overgravatising things is that
Err… is there a punchline to this?
I am not a financial genius. Perhaps someone else could point out the selling point here for me? Whilst standing in the queue around the corner from work to get some cash out this morning (because my normal ATM is
Enjoying your summer?
All I’m saying is, you wouldn’t want to move here if you were bothered by a little bit of rain, would you? In other news, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam, Neil Innes, Carol Cleveland and others will
It’s not a particularly cromulent word, is it? It’s causing me some pericombobulations.
Methinks I’ve just been hosed in a game of Facebook Scrabble… errm, sorry, LEXULOUS. I’m all for winning word games using words that sound a bit unlikely, or are a bit on the bizarre side. You can typically tell these
Pavlovian whining vis-a-vis the Countenance Journal
OK, so for this post to be interesting, you’d probably have to be familiar with Facebook, and Twitter. Cos we’re so Web 2.0 here at Humpy Towers. And I’m going to assume that you are too. Facebook has just introduced
Dodgy Brothers Used-Car-Cash-Milking-Sophistry Emporium
Being a reasonably ethical chap I suppose I am continually flabbergasted at some of the activities my fellow human beings will undertake in order to get ahead in life. In a system where there’s a finite amount of resources, given