Some of the lovely magazines I sub-edited earlier this year – all out now.
Camilla
A taste of the Co-op copywriters’ grammar.
Its it’s again
Those envelopes aren’t going anywhere…
Stationary stationery
These “jacket potatoes” sound well dodgy.
Half baked
Great!!!!!
Tomarrow never comes
The Daily Fail is 900 years ahead of its time…
Future perfect
REMOTELY: adverb [ADVERB -ed] If someone or something is remotely placed or situated, they are a long way from other people or places. MOTLEY: adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] You can describe a group of things as a motley collection if you think they seem strange together because they are all very different.
Re-motley crew
When I first saw this I thought The Guardian had made an error. Seems not, though. Apparently if you’re using a did(not) in your sentence, the general rule is that the tense used is present. It still looks ugly though. “That never used to […]
Did this used to be use?
Working in children’s publishing – we used the phrase ‘sneak peek’ a LOT. I think probably 40 per cent of those ‘peeks’ were spelled ‘peak’ as illustrated neatly here by Victoria Beckham…
Peak peek
Peak-British apologising in this sign.