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Correct spelling is a basic courtesy, like legible handwriting.  It's not optional. Here's a website I came across today: Online Marketing Ireland.  I know nothing about these people, and for [...]

It really annoys me when somebody corrects my pronunciation of Feng Shooey. – Oh, it's pronounced Fung Shway, you know. – By who? I ask. – By the Chinese. – [...]

I'm one of those old fashioned people who think that language matters. I care. It annoys me when people blur the meaning of well-established words, and it annoys me even [...]

Did I ever mention to you that I fucking hate business jargon, going forward? Just thought I'd mention that. It isn't a new thing, you know: I've been around for [...]

It's claimed that Ulster Scots is a language in the same way as Irish or English, or Serbo-Croat. Well, here's the introduction to the web site of the Ulster Scots [...]

A great old Irish word has survived intact within the Limerick dialect, as a term of abuse. Naturally, this being Limerick, they couldn't have held on to a term of [...]

Right. I'm giving fair warning now. I'm going to murder the next person who says :- A long number of years. It might be a long time, or it might [...]