Time for this week's Friday roundup:
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I'm a fan of
The Apprentice, which is in its third series here in the UK, and watching it this week I was amused to hear one of the contestants referred to (by Voiceover Man) as a "trained barrister". I didn't know that you could become a barrister without training. What's that – you can't? Then surely just 'barrister' would have done. Or maybe he meant "trained as a barrister but not practising as one..."
Alan Sugar, silver fox***
A couple of additions to our blogroll, both worth checking out:
Copy-Editing Corner and
Headup: the blog. Seems there are more blogging subs/copy editors than I realised... Talking of which, it might be time that I subdivided my blogroll as it's getting a little unwieldy.
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Earlier in the week Apus wrote a
post mentioning the origin of the word limousine, and the photo I downloaded from image library Morguefile to accompany the post turned out to have been taken by
the author Emily Roesly. I thought it only fair that I gave her a plug...
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A story in free paper Metro about
a teenager who had difficulty ordering a taxi because of the slang she used made me laugh this morning.
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And lastly, I had an email from my mum saying: "I know Posh and Becks called their son Brooklyn, but I've just come across a child called Croydon!"
It's not as unlikely as you might think, oh mother of mine – after all,
Croydon has often been referred to as the "Manhattan of South London". On the other hand,
David Bowie called it "complete concrete hell" and he's not often wrong...
