meganiwish

Seek

Muck

Cornet

Because it's fun and frivolous? Yes, just like the Sneetches!

Wobbly

I read in the Daily Mail today (my chauffeur takes it and had left it on the back seat) that there is an increase in sales of red matchpots as women try to make DIY Louboutins. I think it's a wonderful idea, been mentioned here before. Has anyone done it and have you tried other colours?

Chemist

Wrought

Roro

Shipshape

Gaucho

Oddjob

Pussycat

Would it be possible for one of the mods to sensitively tweak titles with particularly bad howlers? It would give you something to do lol. I honestly don't feel it matters too much in the posts, which are written colloquially anyway, but the titles are our public face.

Regarding the apostrophe s incident above, in recent years we'd have been required to make a note somewhere about your suitability for a career in 'greengrocing' or editingThe Guardian.

Section

Ark

Snooty

Cigar

Book

I will accept that, if used as a true title. But to write that 'John is a Company Director' [or 'a Solicitor' or 'a Dentist' etc] is giving undue status to a job description used generically. (And your 'different ... than' is US usage; 'different ... from' in the UK.)

I think that's exactly what I said. But you're right about my usage being US there. I can only apologise. I was wearing a towel at the time.

Hip

Hospitality

Thank you both, I like to be taught..I'd thought it might be an acronym, like WASP, and I puzzled for ages. ILK, I love you all the more that you know to use a slur to your own strength. I won't use it though, because I think it would be rude of me. It belongs to you.

'Banana's' as a plural is simply unacceptable, as is Lynn Truss. A word borrowed from a foreign language is now an English word and subject to the rules of English. Writing 'Company Director' means something different than writing 'company director'. The first is a person's title, the latter the name of a job. I always put commas at the ends of lines in addresses, but I am, at heart, archaic. I was also taught that a paragraph shouldn't be just one sentence, hence this superfluous one. Anyone acquainted with Winnie the Pooh or the Reverend Awdry will know that 'a Good Thing' is sometimes a good thing. Pugilism isn't my style, but if anyone wants to go toe to toe with me on lingistics I'll see them outside LOL. I may be little, but I'm tough! Capitalisation of titles; a quick scan of my bookshelves gives me: Under The Volcano, James and the Giant Peach, Maze of Death, The General in his Labyrinth, May Week was in June. In the end it matters how good on the eye they look. I don't think 'Under The Volcano' looks as good as 'Under the Volcano'. I think I'd have written 'May Week Was In June'. How the titles look does matter. They are our public face, as it were. We should be careful about these things. Look to the top of your screen: Forum and site Specific Announcements. I know, people are busy, that's why the world needs proof readers. Now, I don't want to get bitter... Megan