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Word of the Year

The Oxford English Dictionary has announced its Word of the Year. And this year it’s ‘omnishambles’, a phrase coined by the BBC writers of In The Thick of It. Read the full BBC article  here.

WIFM leave-behind

Here’s a summary of Vincent’s presentation to WIFM on 14th November

  WIFM Leave behind (348.7 KiB, 204 hits)

Rubbish Reviews

Our Andy’s Throwaway Lines exhibition is garnering some pretty marvelous press coverage.

Andy spent the past few years collecting discarded notes from London’s streets. And with the help of writer’s collective 26, those notes turned into stories.

World’s worst tpyos

The Guardian has assembled photos of some of the world’s most howling typos.

Communication over

A on-screen suicide note has been discovered, written by Ceefax, the TV information channel that was cruelly ‘switched off’ earlier this year. “My friend Oracle said it would end like this…” Read it here.

storyjuice

A great manifesto for stories

Tube of smarties

This lovely blog documents the wittily-worded signs that some joker has stuck on tube trains. Creative and genuinely funny.

Why stories make us cry

We found this great video on Brain Pickings – How stories play with your mind.

How to sell invisible things

You can’t sniff pensions. You can’t squeeze insurance. You can’t have a lick of a health benefit. They’re invisible. So how do you sell them? Find out in our new video. It’s less than two minutes long.

Britspeak is crossing the Atlantic

While the US has given us words like ‘alternate,’ ‘gotten,’ and ‘guys,’ we’ve given them words like ‘ginger,’ ‘sell-by-date,’ and ‘gormless’. Cordelia Hebblethwaite reports on the Britishisms that are creeping into American English in this BBC article.

Political exposure

Our Vincent talks to Andrew Neil on The Daily Politics about his role in the new series of The Thick Of It.

In The Thick Of It

Our Vincent (right of this picture) is being silly on telly again, as Stewart Pearson in The Thick Of It. Here, the Guardian’s Aditya Chakrabortty argues the the real Government is even more farcical…