Tag: Words
- 26th August 2011
The language of leadership: Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs’ stewardship of the world’s largest technology company has drawn to a close. We look back at the language of his leadership.
- 2nd February 2010
Ten words that make readers recoil
We all have favourite words. Mine include beauties like ‘plop’, ‘scud’ and ‘gargle’, because I like nice sounds more than sophisticated definitions. But what about the words you hate? The ones that appear like dog turds on the pavement of prose? I can’t speak for you, but mine are:
- 27th January 2010
“That” can refer to people
A grammatical point that’s cropped up a couple of times this week. Can ‘that’ be used in place of ‘who’? Copy Editor Nick Howard has strong feelings on the point. He goes as far as insisting that “‘That’ does not refer to people”. I disagree. I think it can do. Especially if you want to [...]
- 31st August 2009
Twitter slang in dictionary. FFS, who cares?
The silly season must very nearly be over if we’re already talking about what words have made the Collins English Dictionary. This year’s tedious publicity stunt has worked by drawing attention to young people’s slang, some of which — wait for it — is used on Twitter. ‘Noob’ and ‘meh’ and ‘mwah’ and ‘OMG’ and [...]
