Appeal AGAINST!

Originally posted @ 9:55 pm, Wed 1st Oct 2008

David Cameron's "Judgement and character" pitch for power today included a powerful attack on the President of the Spelling Society.

Get in. "Judgement and character" all summed up in a political attack on a non-combatant. Pick on someone your own size!

Apparently, there are only certain ways words should be spelt. (Wrong is spelt with a "W".)

Imagine too, the panic amongst his speech writers.

"Are you sure you switched the spell-checker on?"

"Is any part of the Word file' language settings set to 'English U.S.?'"

Still, if we're going to pick on these small matters - I was very unhappy about the following sentence -

"Do not appeal this ruling."

Surely this is w-rong.

Surely the British way of saying it is -

"Do not appeal AGAINST this ruling."

I know. I know. I should be sitting here making serious criticisms about serious policy announcements.

But really, how many were there to go at?

(Or as Ben Elton would have said - "He hasn't bothered, so why should I?")

And to think, only a few weeks back he was calling for a General Election.

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P.S. Any spelling mistakes are a result of me hacking text in on-line and not yet having time to put it through a spell-checker.

P.P.S. "We’d have Gordon Brown as Prime Minister – for ever." Surely, "forever".

P.P.P.S. "... the President of the Spelling Society ... said, and I quote, “people should be able to use whichever spelling they prefer.” He’s the President of the Spelling Society. Well, he’s wrong. And by the way, that’s spelt with a ‘W.’" But now I find, my "Geddess & Grisset" dictionary shows judgement can be spelt two ways - judgment and judgement. I'm gonna see if this President has an e-mail address.