This is a pun on "through the looking glass" a famous book by Lewis Carroll. Source - reproduced with permission
This is a pun on "through the looking glass" a famous book by Lewis Carroll. Source - reproduced with permission
Lots of unnecessarily long words, but witty. https://youtu.be/uUhQN-PGWDg Thanks to Chewks.
A small college in Michigan, Lake Superior State University has released its annual list of "banished words and phrases" There are 14 words and phrases that they consider so overused, misused and hackneyed that they deserve to be consigned to a permanent linguistic trash can in the year ahead. I hope they don't mind if […]
Here in the United Kingdom we are supposed to have four seasons, each of about three months long; winter, spring, summer and autumn (fall in America) - though sometimes we seem to get them all in one day: There's an English saying, "If you don't like the weather, wait a few minutes and it will change".
It's that time of year again: filing an income tax return. All of a sudden the meaning of the word "taxing" becomes clear as crystal. Taxing means, burdensome: not easily borne; wearing. I have to say that the German tax system is very taxing.
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 […]