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The Engine Room
http://engineroomblog.blogspot.com
- Author: James Clark
- Listed in: Journalists Writing
- Tags: media publishing grammar vocabulary Etymology spelling
- Added on: May 15th, 2007
- Country: United Kingdom
- Language: English
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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Olympics: asymmetric bars vs uneven bars
It's about time we had an Olympics-related post.Our website editor asks why the 'asymmetric bars' women's gymnastics event is now being called the 'uneven bars', and when the change happened. The International Olympic Committee website refers to 'une...
Percy Pig sweets contain real pig
Supermarket Marks & Spencer sells some very nice pig-shaped sweets called Percy Pigs (or possibly just Percy Pig, as the pictured packet suggests).I was highly amused to notice last week that one of the major ingredients of Percy Pig(s), along wi...
History's greatest sub editors: Mothman
No, this post isn't about a sub editor called Mothman. Let me explain...I'm currently reading John A Keel's book The Mothman Prophecies, originally published as Visitors From Space. You may have seen the film that was (somewhat loosely) based on this...
A confused reader writes
The Engine Room gets some interesting emails, but this one – from Ms Idowu Opeyemi – has to be my favourite so far:I'm a Nigerian and a lover of railway system of transportation which is not so effective here in Nigeria. As a result of my passion...
Job titles: heavyweight journalism
No one can accuse my colleagues of lightweight journalism.As well as recently gaining an 'editor at large' (which appears to be publishing's equivalent of a 'minister without portfolio'), we now have - thanks to recent job title changes - a 'heavy co...
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Anne Hickley Said:
What a great blog! To think I've been married nearly a year and never realised my husband was a pogonotrophist!
