Yes, that’s the beginning of today’s Clarkson. The end:
I’ll leave you with the best example I know
of this nonsense. It was a rack of papers in a hotel foyer over which
there was a sign: “Newspapers for your reading pleasure”.
All they had left was The Guardian. So it wasn’t even technically correct.
The bit in the middle’s worth reading too.
In
Clarkson the new Nacy Mitford? Who’d have guessed it?
yK: from U-turns to non-U.
Clarkson is bang on. The abuse of reflexive pronouns is vomit-inducing. It was a sad day when they abolished horse-whipping for that sort of thing.
And I thought it was just me that found the use of the word “beverage” and the finishing of questions with the words “at all?” (as in “do you have a loyalty card at all?) hugely irritating.
Sun Ripened Adjectives
Tim Worstall and Pootergeek have already linked to this Jeremy Clarkson piece from the Sunday Times on annoying words and phrases that have crept into…
Sun Ripened Adjectives
Tim Worstall and Pootergeek have already linked to this Jeremy Clarkson piece from the Sunday Times on annoying words and phrases that have crept into…
What gets my goat is “perusal”.
“I enclose my C.V for your perusal.”
Hand me a bucket per-lease.
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