Friday, 15 February 2008
Good tidings
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This little beauty appeared in the God-awful Scotsman newspaper recently:
Apart from the gorgeous spelling errors, I enjoyed the sentence beginning 'Clothes, shoes...' The way the list suddenly recommences, seemingly apropos of nothing, is excellent: it's like when a newsreader is told to keep ad-libbing because the tape of the next story isn't ready yet.
It's good to be home, GrammarBlog.
Apart from the gorgeous spelling errors, I enjoyed the sentence beginning 'Clothes, shoes...' The way the list suddenly recommences, seemingly apropos of nothing, is excellent: it's like when a newsreader is told to keep ad-libbing because the tape of the next story isn't ready yet.It's good to be home, GrammarBlog.
Labels: boxes, scotch, scotsman, spelling errors
posted by Dan at 8:51 am
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