Daily Archives: October 6, 2005

Etonline

I’m not a celebrity junkie type, honest, but Andy pointed to a crappy bit of captioning on the Beeb’s website: “Holmes romanticised about marrying Cruise as a young girl” “Romanticized about” – what? Technically the intransitive form of the verb can be used in this manner, but the transitive form is overwhelmingly more common and [...]

Meirs

There has been a lot of criticism from all sides about the President’s latest pick for the Supreme Court, and I just want to say that it’s unfair. Mr Bush himself said that she was “the best person I could find”, and I think he’s telling the truth. The White House is a big building, [...]