Go card penalises wary transport users
WHAT is it with “a lot” of Translink’s go cards expiring before the cash stored on them has been spent? And why, when this happens, should commuters be forced to […]
WHAT is it with “a lot” of Translink’s go cards expiring before the cash stored on them has been spent? And why, when this happens, should commuters be forced to […]
Increasingly we are reading/hearing the phrase “in the wake of …” If one is referring to the disturbed water behind a boat, then that’s fine. For everything else, why not […]
We’d always been taught that decreasing numbers of things that could be counted – such as objects or people – were fewer in number, while falling volumes – such as […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]