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 ' […]

Oxford University Press are publishing the world's largest thesaurus. It's taken them 40 years to compile the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary, which is published in two volumes, and is 4,500 pages long. It contains 800,000 meanings split into 236,000 categories and sub-categories. But don't worry, you don't have to memorise them all.

Usually using a cash machine (ATM) isn't that much fun, unless you pretend you're playing a one armed bandit and you've just won. But a number of cash machines in east London are about to change all that. People using Bank Machine ATMs will be able to opt to have their prompts and options given […]

US web monitoring firm, Global Language Monitor, has declared the millionth Englith word to be "Web 2", which is a term used for the latest generation of web products. (They trawl the internet for new words and terms and once a word or phrase has been used at least 25,000 times, it accepts it. Seemingly […]