Tag Archives: wrong words

Beheading to Death as a Past Time

News item: “Saudi Arabia is to behead a… man to death…” News item: “Shopping is one of our most traditional past times” I spotted both the above two editing fails on the same day. At the time, I thought of ranting about poor editorial standards, but thought better of it. I think the following script, which was inspired by my… Read more »

Word of the Year – The Winner Is…

Are you one of the old school that laments the use of abbreviations and picture symbols in communications? The folk over at Oxford Dictionaries clearly aren’t. Their 2015 Word of the Year is… . Yep. That’s right. It’s an emoji, and its official name is “Face with Tears of Joy”. It was chosen, because – and I quote – “[it]… Read more »