When I started my old job working in the production of closed captions for the telly, I was fairly confident of my knowledge of the English language. I knew the difference between it’s and its, who’s and whose, and other sorts of things that Lynn Truss wailed about in “Eats, Shoots and Leaves”. And I [...]
Google search results: “chaise lounge” 29,800 “chaise longue” 26,300 It’s close, but the fact that the misspelling has more hits suggests that it has become the de facto way of spelling it. Oh my God, it’s the end of the world, etc, etc. Pass the bottle opener.
I was walking down the street when I saw a sign outside a cafe advertising “COFFEE AND DESERT”. This intrigued me as whilst coffee is a fairly standard menu item for cafes, it’s not often that you see one offering desert. I shifted my glance towards the cafe. It did not appear to offer the [...]