Dot Wordsworth

Mind your language | 9 June 2007

You could legitimately refer to me as a member of the annoyed community

issue 09 June 2007

I heard someone on the wireless, in talking about the Freedom of Information Act, refer to the ‘information-requesting community’, as if they all lived together and had much in common.

You could, though, legitimately refer to me as a member of the annoyed community. I do have something in common with thousands of readers and listeners, even if I have never met them, who are enraged by stupid, empty, clichéd and erroneous language.

Now I have read an entertaining little book called She Literally Exploded: The Daily Telegraph Infuriating...

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