Learn from your mistakes
The Times Higher Education exam howlers competition has come up with some great results. The winner was the entry provided by John Milliken, lecturer in education at the University of Ulster. His student claimed that ‘the [hole in the] ozone layer was caused by a*******s. Dr Milliken said: ‘He probably meant aerosols, but then…maybe not.’ […]
I saw this lovely little Christmassy snippet in the Shropshire Star:- Shoppers might not have believed their mince pies when they saw what a supermarket had on offer. For days a misspelt sign at Sainsbury's supermarket in Dartford, Kent, advertised packs of icing-topped 'mice' pies, instead of mince pies. It's a wonder they didn't have […]
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently gave a gift to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. It was meant to underscore the Obama administration's readiness to "to press the reset button" in ties with Moscow. But instead of the Russian word for "reset" (perezagruzka) it featured a slightly different word meaning "overload" or "overcharged" (peregruzka).
Britain's minister for schools has a string of basic errors on his website. Jim Knight, who went to Cambridge University, has admitted he could do better when it comes to spelling, after a newspaper found several examples of poor spelling on his website, they include "maintainence" for "maintenance," "acheiving" for "achieving" and "archeaological" for "archaeological," […]