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A blog about English language use, publishing and the media in general – brought to you by a sub-editor (copy editor) on a weekly UK magazine and his former chief sub.
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Recent PostsHere's a short extract from the novel No Time For Goodbye, by Linwood Barclay:Paula Malloy was there and she greeted Cynthia like an old friend, oozing charm like a runny sore.Maybe it's just me, but I don't think the second synonym works. After all,...
A bit of Saturday morning trivia: Google's PageRank algorithm, which scores web pages on their importance from zero to 10, is actually named after the chap who developed it: Larry Page.It's a good job he wasn't called Larry Bottomley, as I'm not sure...
At work, we often use stock photography from online image libraries. Recently I was searching one of these libraries for a picture to illustrate a news story about the 'white van man' stereotype.What did the image library give me when I entered the s...
According to today's Evening Standard, the London Underground is currently "too hot for cattle":That's a shame, because cows love travelling on the Tube.Incidentally, a couple of the broadsheets ran a similar story back in 2002. At least The Guardian...
Here's the BBC News website's 'most popular stories now' widget from the start of the week:What's interesting is that story eight, "Tea 'healthier' drink than water", actually dates from August 2006:For it to resurface as one of the Beeb's most popul...
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Anne HickleyWhat a great blog! To think I've been married nearly a year and never realised my husband was a pogonotrophist!
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