WE HAD lunch at a very nice seaside hotel last week. It says so in bold type on the wine list. Then again perhaps it isn't.
Pedantry is a hard vice to give up.
I'll risk different than and hope she doesn't notice.'' Some habits of pedantry are easy to break. But I recently had an e-correspondence from a reader taking me to task for writing for this newspaper, which has a house style for the word colour, which it spells color. I think I am, in the interests of economy and uniformity, even though my Australian English spell checker chokes on it. This is a dopey word that only exists to mark the better class of person. If we stop to think about it we know that who is the subject of the verb and whom the object.