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  1. RT @OHNewsroom Sub Editor: “To be fair, I don’t pay any attention to the actual wording.” 2:58 PM Nov 19th from web
  2. Me to my girlfriend: "What do you call someone from Derby?" My girlfriend (who is from Derby): "A Darbarian!" 1:05 PM Nov 19th from web
  3. RT @wordlust If you didn’t know better, “bouncer” and “fluffer” sound like the cutest, cuddliest professions in the world. Or reindeer. 1:13 PM Nov 18th from web
  4. Ian Beale's cafe in Eastenders offers a 'Beale-L-T' rather than a BLT: http://bit.ly/1qSHIy 3:58 PM Nov 16th from web
  5. Everyone at my firm has just been given a month's free 'tastelondon' membership. Who said perks were dead? http://bit.ly/4yrPMa 7:37 AM Nov 10th from web
  6. Just got on to Google Wave, thanks to @jmuttram - wave to me at engineroomblog@googlewave.com 1:26 AM Nov 9th from web
  7. Poor spelling can cost a company sales (at least if I'm buying): http://bit.ly/4v3uFF 10:29 AM Nov 2nd from web
  8. The announcer on Five just plugged a TV show called 'Britain's Breast Bains'. I think she meant 'Britain's Best Brains'... 3:06 AM Nov 2nd from web
  9. RT @OHnewsroom Photographer to Producer: “Our computers are so slow I could drive to Google and get the information faster.” 1:39 PM Oct 28th from web
  10. (Incomplete) list of magazine journalists on Twitter: http://bit.ly/4ruBbT 10:42 AM Oct 25th from web
  11. Sign of the times: a local gift shop was playing Spotify instead of the radio or a CD. Didn't even realise until the advertising started. 9:58 AM Oct 25th from web
  12. Brilliant typo in headline of Daily Express column: http://bit.ly/2qSzMm Where can I buy a generation hat? 2:07 PM Oct 22nd from web
  13. RT @gezd I love the stupid names that property developers invent. http://post.ly/91LV 6:36 AM Oct 18th from web
  14. Balloon boy's father has talked of feeling "up and down". Very fitting! 9:10 AM Oct 16th from txt
  15. Me being dynamic, apparently: http://bit.ly/31HWeX 3:10 PM Oct 15th from web
  16. RT @StanCarey "I like the way it raises its family, / Partly birdly, partly mammaly" - Ogden Nash, in 'The Platypus'. 3:00 PM Oct 14th from web
  17. '100 great blogs that young writers should read' http://bit.ly/WFCzA 2:38 AM Oct 14th from web
  18. Scandinavian or Nordic? http://bit.ly/UmpzR 2:50 PM Oct 13th from web
  19. Is it bad form to retweet from someone who protects their tweets? 11:20 AM Oct 13th from web
  20. Just had a demo of Sony's touchscreen ereader. Readability is good but controls seem a bit 'laggy' 3:46 AM Oct 10th from txt
  • Name JD
  • Location Sutton / London (UK)
  • Web http://engineroom...
  • Bio I'm the journalist behind The Engine Room, a blog about language use, editing, publishing and the media.
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