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This is JD's blog about language use, journalism, and media old and new.
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In one of our recent news stories, a union spokesperson was quoted as predicting "a flat growth of 3.275 million tonnes of road transport volumes, as in the fourth quarter of 2008". 'Flat growth' stri...
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Awkward verbs: to rota | The Engine Room
Posted by JD (The Engine Room) on Wednesday, 24 September 2008 A while back I blogged about how 'pro rata' makes an awkward verb as there seems to be no consensus on how the past participle should ...
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13 years
So I haven't written anything here on The Engine Room since last summer. That's because I've been working on a new site, Cathedral City Guide.
Why? Well, I was keen to build something in WordPress; my day job had moved almost totally away from subbing; and I wanted a new challenge. Most of all, my partner and I had visited half a dozen of England's medieval cathedral cities and we felt that... -
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A tree is something resembling a tree
Unlikely as it sounds, I recently got involved in a drunken discussion on the difference between a tree, a bush and a plant.
I Googled 'tree' on my smartphone and one of the first definitions I came across was:
Something constructed in the form of, or considered as resembling, a tree, consisting of a stem, or stock, and branches; as, a genealogical tree.... -
13 years
The Engine Room didn't make it into bab.la and Lexiophiles' list of the 'Top 100 Language Blogs 2010', but if you voted for us then thank you.
Although the list is dominated by teaching and translation blogs (which usually hold no great interest for me), a few of my favourite blogs are present - including Fritinancy and Sentence first. Well done!... -
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What do you call it when... someone's visual identity is unknown?
This query has been emailed into The Engine Room:
Is there a word which means that a person's visual identity is unknown? For example, the West End Whingers are often referred to as "anonymous" as people don't know what they look like. However, they are not anonymous as they really are called Phil and...
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