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.
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 […]
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…