BBC bucks trend

Are you, like Greg L, concerned that more and more Americanisms are creeping into the BBC's output?

For those of you who are hard of hearing...

Who knows? It may well be a sterling article.

Unspeakable date

Driving through Santa Clara CA, Jon C was just about able to capture this banner outside the Portuguese Hall of Santa Clara on Lafayette Street.

It's interesting, not least because the Sociedade Do Espirito Santo (the SES) is an organisation whose aim for nigh on 120 years has been to preserve and promote Portuguese culture.

But the sound th doesn't exist in the Portuguese language.

So not only is November 22th meaningless to all and sundry, it's also unpronounceable by the very people at whom the banner is directed.

Hard cash

Angie J was more than a little surprised the other day when she came across this ATM outside a new Tesco Express in Aberystwyth town centre offering Welsh speakers a degree of largesse not normally associated with bankers.

That's Bankers for those of you whose ears suddenly pricked up.

We've come to expect free cash withdrawals.

But free erections? Now that is big.

OK. It may serve to underline the somewhat diverse benefits to be enjoyed from a hole in the wall by certain of those who live among us.

But to ask a Welsh speaker to check a few words before going public?

Surely it's not that hard.

Be wear

Thanks, Dennis A, for this one.

There's some debate about whether the caption is, in fact, intentional or a typo.

Either we are Number 1 in which case we're definitely not as far as apostrophe placement is concerned.

Or we were Number 1, in which case we might have been at one time but we're certainly not now.

Either way, it's not particularly good news for the UK.

As for the hoodie, where would we wear it?

Well, we're wearing it on the weir now but where were we when we were wearing it where we were then?

In the warehouse. Which, if there's any justice, is to where these were wares which we were wearing would wend their weary way.

Cereal con artist

Such a shame about Tesco recently, isn't it?

Shameful that the company hasn't been investigated before for fraud, theft and duplicity.

After all, the evidence has been clear for everyone to witness.