A headline in The Times, page 49 today: “Public prosecutor can issue arrrest (sic) warrant”. With my mild dyslexia I often have to look at the typos published in Private Eye several times to get them. But this one just leapt off the page. Three “r’s” in arrest? Is that coded message from the The Read More
Category: Spelling
SO what DO you call a blog alert…?
Isn’t our language fabulous? When I deliver my copywriting training sessions, I always try to include the startling fact that although the Oxford English Dictionary accepts (for Scrabble?) and includes over 600,000 different words in the English language, our average written vocabulary in the UK is a paltry 4,000 words. Shakespeare in contrast employed over 15,000 different Read More
I had to read it twice…
…but for all the wrong reasons! I got this in my inbox today, from a respected trade body. Of course the spelling and grammar mistakes could be put down to an administrative oversight, but that still doesn’t really excuse the poor tone of voice… ——————————————————————————————————————- Hi Craig, The IAB has a busy training scedule planned in Read More
Grammar e-learning course
It is with trepidation that I offer the world an e-learning course on grammar. I have a grammar textbook given to me by the subs at Computing when I left of over 1,700 pages. They obviously thought I would need help as a freelance, bless them. Why trepidation? English grammar is a slippery subject. There Read More