Peeves
Why ‘my’?
There’s a plague of first-person advertising
Beware
My husband pointed with his stick, which he carries not to steady himself but to cudgel pedestrians out of his…
Peak
Near Victoria Station in London they began to build a tower-block advertised as ‘The Peak’. I expected it to resemble…
Fulsome
It’s funny that two much misused words end in —some: fulsome and noisome. Noisome is the less often used at…
I love it that you…
I had never heard the Country (Red Dirt) singer Wade Bowen before, although his latest album Hold my Beer (Vol 1)…
Pre-diabetes
‘Pre-diabetes is an artificial category with virtually zero clinical relevance,’ said an American professor in the Times. A friend of…
Hopefully
There was outrage last week when it was found that the Oxford English Dictionary had listed one sense of literally…
