‘Gaol’ or ‘jail’? I know which one I prefer…
A friend asked my opinion on the spelling of ‘gaol’ rather than ‘jail’. She said her teacher at school went ballistic if anyone spelt the word ‘jail’. Now we all […]
Month: May 2019
Choomuhrik? Really, Jamie?
Don’t get me wrong, I love Jamie Oliver. Not just for his recipes. For how great he is, especially for his campaign to improve the quality of school dinners in […]
‘Less chairs’ or ‘fewer chairs’?
A couple of people have asked me what I think about the use of ‘less’ when – according to them – it should be ‘fewer’. For example, if someone says […]
‘Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance’ – Johnson (Samuel, not Boris)
Samuel Johnson, renowned man of letters in the eighteenth century, wrote, almost single-handed, the first great reliable dictionary of English. It was published in 1755 by a consortium of printers, […]