King's English

A writing assistance service for allcomers, commercial or private. Copy editing, tuition. Tweeter, blogger, poet and and scourge of the trite and convoluted.

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@campbellclaret 'Moving on', surely . . .

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@abzalphadog @paulmasonnews @Keir_Starmer Fewer jobs

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@MaySting1 @implausibleblog @andreajenkyns When AJ was elected her first words from the stage were that she wanted to 'take the country back' to something or other. Anything else we need to know?

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@MatthewStadlen I suppose Anderson in contrast needs a strong wrist as he's such a w*n*er

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@Carmunist Heart of Darkness

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Delighted to learn that our new government is dropping the phrase 'levelling up' from the Departmental title. This was always a piece of vacuous Johnsonian nonsense. Good politics, clear thinking and precise language are inextricably linked.

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@Carmunist Second Class Taxi, by Sylvester Stein (1958). Probably hard to find now, but the first book to be banned in Apartheid SA. A delightful story . . .

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@hendopolis 'Me tweet out'?

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@DPJHodges What's this? A Damascene conversion?

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@danwootton Really, where would you be without that word 'woke' to hang on to? You are evidently bereft on any ability to marshall a broader, more varied palette of words. Poor language, poor ideas. How you are exposed.

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@Lucy_Worsley C'mon Lucy - at least give us a difficult one.

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@LBFlyawayhome I would have given you mine . . .

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@garygilligan The last Atherton I remember got rumbled for putting a new shine on something . . .

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@DarlingAxe Thanks. It's not prolepsis then! Yes, there's a time gap in the narrative, and when it resumes Mrs D is a while dead.

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@garygilligan I'll include myself in that Gary on account of my Irish Great Grandma (sadly not enough to qualify me for an EU passport!)

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@day156324 As an Epping boy I have to follow you . . .

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@garygilligan @Samp060465 @LucidWhim @sharonjmxx @MissingEUTwo @jaxyw @MrsAgbag @fromthenorth66 @DerekWi82860696 @Helen07101981 @SimonPage7777 @paulloli @tobybmth @Tricia_SusanP @DaveB22664400 @morrismiff Thank you Gary

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@LBFlyawayhome My Friday feeling . . .

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@DarlingAxe 😊 I do like the idea of the comic 'reductio ad absurdum' for well known titles. They don't have to be shorter, just a suitably bathetic alternative. You should ask followers for more examples, though I'm afraid I'm not feeling inspired enough just now to make a start.