Canada's Culture Minister Kevin Krueger today announced that Canadians will no longer be allowed to use the expression "eh?" with abandon: "I believe that this linguistic identifier places Canadians at a disadvantage in the English-speaking world, eh...
PC DO-GOODERS AT THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY have officially announced the banning of the word "now" as of midnight tonight. They claim the word has lost all of its currency due to cod-dramatic overuse in right-wing tabloids, and as such will egg...
Collection of signs found around the world In a Tokyo Hotel: Is forbitten to steal hotel towels please. If you are not person to do such thing is please not to read notis. In another Japanese hotel room: Please to bathe inside the tub. In a Bucharest hotel lobby: The lift is being fixed for the next day. During that time we regret that you will be unbearable. In a Leipzig elevator: Do n...
Some of you might like to know what your supervisor/manager is really saying in all those glowing employee work performance evaluations she/he keeps filling in. Inchcock Chambers, our unpaid roving reporter brings you advice attained at great risk, by actually meeting management personnel under cover. He hopes this dictionary will assist you. AVERAGE: Not too bright. EXCEPTIONALLY WELL...
A high number of "inconsistencies" in the way basic words are spelt makes it much harder for children to read and write at a young age, it is claimed. Masha Bell, author and literacy researcher, will tell a conference of English teachers on Friday that sweeping reforms are needed to the spelling system to improve children's linguistic skills. Above headline from online Daily Telegraph.
Our intrepid Reporter, Skoda Estelle driving Inchcock Chambers recalls his memories of the unique speech patterns, inflections, and choice of words used by his fellow Nottinghamians: Go away - Geroff What would you like? - Wodayowant? In trouble with the teacher - Yer inferitnar A friend - Mate, chum or mucker Would you like to engage with me in fisticuffs? - Purumup! Do yo...
Susan Boyle has been asked to be on the panel of judges for the next season of 'America's Got Talent'. Susan has accepted the 'challenge' but has ONE stipulation. The stipulation is that the Americans - and indeed the Brits. - improve their English...
At last the Government have come out with yet another stupid scam to curb the number of immigrants entering Britain. Now immigrants will have to take - and pass - an English literacy test. This seems to this writer to be cruel and unusual punish...
For many years, the Reading School of Reading has been the butt of jokes. Located on the outskirts of Reading, many people see the sign and wonder if it is pronounced as the REDding school of REEDing or the REEDing school of REDding. Now the new d...
Most Welsh people only speak the language so that the English cannot understand what they are saying, a survey has confirmed. More than 20,000 Welsh people were questioned after complaints were made about a phrase book. Several entries in the b...
Irishman Cillian Murphy known to his friends as Silly has purchased a copy of the book of Gobble-de-gook on Ebay after reading the book was as controversial as the Bible. "I wanted to compare this book to the bible but was very disappointed said"...
There are many books in the World that cause controversy, The Bible, Darwins Origin of the Species, are two right at the top of the list for example. There is however a book that can cause more misunderstanding than that, its the book of Gobble-de-go...
Noam Chomsky introduced his new book today at a gathering at the neighborhood Why Not market. Chomsky opened the talk with "Why not the Why Not?" and further described the market is where words are evolving daily. Here where a large means a sma...
A charity that counsels abused library staff has petitioned the Oxford English Dictionary to drop the verb 'Facebooking' from the official new words due to be added to the next version of its dictionary. The popularity of social networking website...
Their is a reason why chuy is not a popular part of a word in the English language. Many have asked over the centuries why oh why was the why removed? The English language expert and brilliant scrabble exponent, John "Chuy" Brown has collected a l...
Oxford University in England is arguably the greatest seat of learning the modern world has known. Here, great minds have studied, and great statesmen, generals, leaders and all round nice guys have come out of this remarkable place throughout its no...
An even mor Modest Proposal: that everyone whenever they wish can omit surplus letters in words that don't represent meaning or pronunciation and often mislead. They ar the most common reason why spelling demons ar demonic. They waste time, paper, ink, but even mor they waste peple's time lerning them and hassl over getting them incorrect. U cannot gess what they ar or put them in the right pl...
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