… well, in some continents anyway. 🌞 🌞 🌞 And via a questionable word association, on the theme of springing… 😉
Category Archives: Monday smiles
Monday smile – Le mot mot
Today’s smile is especially for French speakers (or readers). The well-known dictionary publisher Le Robert has recently released “Vous saurez tout sur le mot mot“.
These 224 illustrated pages of puns, historical gems, and little-known facts covering all aspects of life are guaranteed to raise smiles.
Monday smile – A British Day
Insights into some typical British habits – from Marmite to builders’ tea, from dunking biscuits to pub carpets, and from allotments to tabloid newspapers. 🙂
Monday smile – Tax planning
I love this! Have a great week, whether you are working on a tax case or not… 🙂
Monday smile – Shoplifting seagulls
A notorious feathered serial offender in Ayr, Scotland has been caught on film plodding unobtrusively into a store and sneaking off with a packet of potato crisps.
Yes, really. 🙂
Monday smile – The Internet of Things
The Internet of Things interprets the instructions of a business jargon aficionado. Enjoy!
Monday smile – Negotiating positions
Enjoy the week ahead!
Monday smile – The Oxford comma has personality
Following the recent settlement of the Oxford comma dispute involving a dairy and some truck drivers¹ (see here, for example), you may enjoy perusing the Twitter account of the Oxford comma @IamOxfordComma. 🙂
Monday smile – Promises, promises
To start the week on a light note, a riff on restrictive covenants by our good friend Ken Adams @KonciseD, blogger extraordinaire at Adams on Contract Drafting, and author of the authoritative work The Manual of Style for Contract Drafting, now in its fourth edition. Continue reading
Monday smile – From bafflegab to globaloney
As a “Part 2” to last week’s post on the BBC’s coverage of Davos language, I’d like to point you to a whole host of examples of business jargon.
In the title above, “bafflegab” is a word for jargon used in the Pentagon in the 1960s, updated to “globaloney” by a BBC contributor. 🙂
