British anti-jargon campaigners, the Plain English Campaign, were celebrating Monday after forcing supermarket chain, the CoOp, to change the labelling on a sausage snack which had been described as "ambient". Campaigners decided to complain about what they described as the "bizarre" title given to the roll after they were contacted by a succession of baffled […]
A hospital paediatrician in Wales has been driven out of her home, after vandals confused her professional title with the word "paedophile". Her house was daubed with graffiti because local yobs don't seem to know the difference between "paedophile" and "paediatrician". It would be funny, if it wasn't so tragic.
A McDonald's advert, which promotes the Pound Saver Menu, says, "the pound, also known as a bob". Since when? I mean I know inflation is on its way, but a bob is British slang term for a shilling, or five pence, and of far less value than a pound. If I went to McDonald's (which […]
Actually I'm not talking about THE the "C" word (if you don't know what that is and you're not easily shocked, look it up in the Urban Dictionary). No, this "C" word is, or at least it used to be, less offensive, but now Home Office officials say that mentioning "crime" can lead to ' […]
Italians are quite used to feeling "lo stress", looking forward to "il weekend" or trying to look "cool". But now an influential cultural institute has asked Italians to protect the language and reject "Anglitaliano". The Dante Alighieri Society asked people for examples of over-used foreign words and "il weekend" emerged as the worst offender. The […]