July 4, 2009 - 3:19 pm
Tags: cars, language
Posted in Word from nowhere | 2 comments
Chad and I visited Goodwood – Festival of Speed today (think Glastonbury for the petrol head middle-classes). We meet up with friends, the sun was shining and all round a good day was had.
At one stage I turned to Chad and said: “Are you alright? You are looking mildly perturbed”. He told me he felt [...]
June 25, 2009 - 10:46 pm
Tags: language
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Yes my friends, with hindsight, the the word ‘aware’ is definitely more than sufficient.
I used this interesting word in the pub earlier this evening. Ouch – contact the Plain English Campaign.
June 13, 2009 - 9:37 pm
Tags: language
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This doesn’t strictly fit into my ‘Word from nowhere’ category. In fact it could be in a new category called ‘Words from a known source that you say all the time with your partner and make you laugh’. But hey let’s go crazy and keep it in the former category …
Chad and I [...]
May 22, 2009 - 1:39 am
Tags: language
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This is going to be a new section to my blog: words that I have said for the first time.
Today I used the word ‘juxtapose’ in a team meeting.
Not sure where that came from – pretentious, moi… N x
Oh here’s another word – insomnia!!! I cannot sleep but I can hear Chad and both cats [...]
June 9, 2009 - 9:23 pm
I know exactly what you mean. Some days you find yourself writing and researching and talking so much and so in depth that you have to catch yourself to realize – wow, this is incredibly gross.
We're saving lives, right? …right??
June 10, 2009 - 9:01 am
Right.
I love working in healthcare communications as we are contributing to the greater good – whether that be by facilitating education of healthcare professionals or raising awareness of a disease for people who have it or the carers that look after them.
Anyway I have to lie down now as my back is killing me from lugging heavy bags all over Milan having walked about 10 miles a day around a huge congress centre ;+)