Friday roundup: Damp Squid and Adam Smith

Spotted this week:

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1. A widely reported story on the 10 most irritating expressions in English. It's another book tie-in, the book in question being Damp Squid (pictured) by Jeremy Butterfield.

There's a related quick quiz on the OUP blog and it's also worth checking out the Underwire coverage (thanks, Harry) simply for all the comments.

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2. An even more widely reported story concerning Adam Smith, a reporter for the Birmingham Mail (that's Birmingham in England!). While in Miami, Smith got drunk celebrating Barack Obama's election victory and was filmed:

• jokingly admitting to cutting and pasting from the BBC website – while filing copy
  

• swearing at the camera

• resigning from his job to set up his own magazine

• referring to himself as 'Steve Zacharanda' (I'm not sure why... he may have had a reason)

We've all had nights like that.


UPDATE 18:30 - Yes, I know it's not a Friday. But it certainly feels like one...