Humour

Funny stuff, bad headlines

9 articles tagged humour, drawn from across the archive.

Famous person transcript This is an exercise in turning a transcript (nothing but verbatim spoken quotes recorded on a recorder)...

Humour: ENGLISH IS CRAZY Let's face it -- English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither...

Humour: SPELL CHEQUER Eye halve a spelling chequer It came with my pea sea It plainly marques four my revue Miss steaks eye kin...

Humour writing in journalism Writing humorous journalism is incredibly hard. Have you read the journalism of Maureen Dowd, Imre...

Humor: PUNCTUATION An Professor of English wrote the words woman without her man is a savage . . . on the blackboard and directed...

Oxymoron: what is it? A dictionary definition: 'A rhetorical figure in which an epigrammatic effect is created by the conjunction...

The nicknames Oz or Down Under for Australia are terms much disliked by Australian journalists. I advise you not to use either...

Regarding the term round-up. 'Round-up' in journalism has varying shades of meaning. But usually it's a current, breaking story...

Regarding the expressions 'solicited' and 'unsolicited'. Firstly, try to get 'the dictionary habit' and look up unfamiliar words...