The Most Amazing Words of 2010 were last night announced at the Annual Most Amazing Words Awards Ceremony held in the Kodak Theatre, Hollywood, California. For the fifth year in a row, and to no great surprise to the thousands of cogniscenti in at...
The current 250 year licence granted to the USA to use English as its official language is due to expire at the end of January 2011. The licence was originally granted by King George III and intended as a stop-gap till the colony (as it was then) dec...
Perhaps one of the most interesting words in the English language today is the word, "Fuck". It is one magical word: Just by its sound, you can describe, pain, pleasure, hate and love. Fuck, like most words in the English language, takes its name from the German word, "Friken" which means to strike. In language, Fuck falls into many grammatical catagories. It can be used as a verb, both intr...
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The verb "to assange" has been officially added to the Oxbridge English dictionary this week, in honour of the whiney attention-seeker Julian Assange. "To assange" is officially defined as "to act in a criminal manner and then to behave smugly and...
What has this world come to where saying phrases such as "go fuck yourself you bastard" and "doo-doo butter" are against the law? Pretty soon children won't even be able to take candy from strangers in creepy vans anymore. What happened to the good o...
BIRMINGHAM - Across the country, metaphors are becoming true due to lack of vocabulary in citizens. The average person has roughly 5000 words in their vocabulary, with university students having 8000, and chavs having fifteen. Due to this lack...
A top elocution expert has backed actor Emma Thompson's broadside against modern teen speak. Thompson, speaking to pupils at her old school, complained that filling sentences with expressions "like" and "innit" made young people sound stupid. A...
Some linguists say language came about as an imitation of natural sounds -howling, barking, baying, etc. On the other hand, bible says people, at the beginning, spoke one language! One day, they decided to build a tower to reach heaven. God didn't like it at all, so he 'confound their language', and, thus, people ceased to 'understand one another's speech'. Whatever. We may safely presum...
Clare Balding, the famous lesbian who is no longer travelling by bicycle, is the victim of a tragic accident of grammar. "I have contracted a comma between my first name and my surname" She announced on Twitter. "It is apparently rare - but as Cl...
Many editors, experts declare, and it is often reported, that what it is widely thought to be "weasel words" should be eliminated, research has shown. "Science says that weasel words, it was proven, present what can appear to be supporting opinion...
Une Language de Angletair ist finito daman unt herren, Le Government de Isle d'Inghilterra avec Europäisches Parlament dans le city of Brussels, says le grand NON. Nicht mehr parlez English at all, full stop, as it is now considered racist to spe...
Mancunian newspaper vendor, Johnny Trousers, of Ardwick Green today categorically denied that Mancunians have a speech impediment, and the real problem in that department lies with Scousers. "We're all right mate, we are, us," Trousers said. "It's...
Well, think about it. There are both American/Canadian and British writers on this site. Probably even more nationalities....but it crossed my mind...and that of others...that...even though we THINK we are speaking the same language....we are most definitely NOT. In England a 'fanny' is a 'vagina' In America a 'fanny' is a 'butt' In England a 'butt' is a 'fag end' In America a 'fag e...
In an recent report by the Society for the Promotion of English Language Humor it was revealed that most of the world's English speakers don't find English humor funny. The most cited reason was "Humor Subject Matter Unintelligible" with "Vulgar and...
The English today confounded the world by admitting that the English what they talk doesn't quite Thomas O'Malley wiv the English like wot the rest of the world speaks coz it's not proper. And that. Innit. The debate was sparked by an internet blo...
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