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grunger

Thanks for the account of your cricket match. I am sorry nobody went near you, but I am sure you appreciated being isolated. Hope you completed the crossword in the "tea" interval.

Jigjag

I was trying to finish the Friday Times. I didnt get the pitcher clue. I was only thinking about baseball and had not heard of Jailhouse Rock. Before my time I think.

Grunger

I thought the Times was very hard on Friday and yet very easy yesterday. I was pleased to read about the pie-eaters of Wigan today.

I saw these words on the cover of Private Eye yesterday: "I can't promise to save everyone's jobs".

That would only make sense if everyone had two or more jobs. But as most people have one job, I think it should just be everyone's job. But then we do think of "everyone" as a plural sometimes, as in "I want everyone to enjoy themselves", a usage that was common before all the agonizing about he/she.

And I noticed these in the papers this morning:

"Three million people will have to pay for their TV licence."
Unless they are going to share one licence amongst them, it should be licences. We lift up our heads, even though we only have one each.

Then this from a diplomat in the Times:
"The police must continuously review their terminology."
He means continually, unless he expects the police to reviews things for every second of every minute of every day.

Orson, the plural stuff (licences, jobs) was interesting - and I expect I've got it wrong sometimes!

I was reading one of the tabloids online last week. It was disconcerting to learn that Jamie Oliver and his wife had planned to 'renew their vowels'!

Morning. The clue below irritated me...


Nerve of informant speaking out (5).

malone, do you think nerve is not a good definition of sauce?

Paul...., no - it's the homophone I don't like!

malone
sauce/source

I'm quite pedantic but I don't object to that alleged homophone.

Perhaps I don't talk proper.