Style matters #2: Slicing the ‘e’ off swathe
While working as a sub-editor, an erudite colleague once pointed out to me that while we say – and more often write – the word swathe (which rhymes with lathe) as […]
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Is Australia surrendering its egalitarianism?
TWO very close friends are off on an extended European holiday later this year and last week asked, via email, whether there was any truth in a rather alarming article […]
Crowd control must start with the individual
WHAT is it about big crowds that they seem to be magnets for the ill-mannered almost every time? Recently I stood amid thousands of Barry Gibb fans just to hear […]
Style matters #1: ‘Myriad’ never married ‘of’
How many times have you seen a sentence that contained a phrase such as “We were attacked by a myriad of insects and …” OR “They loved him in a myriad of […]
Welcome
Welcome to reporting4work, a blog written by Trina McLellan, who runs a writing, editing, training and communication consultancy business, Reporting For Work, from the eastern seaboard Australian city of Brisbane in […]
