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Brisbane Times

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‘Omnishambles’ caught our attention but its origin might surprise you

Leaving port, loaded to the gills, the MV Dali struck Baltimore’s bridge. Girders crumpled. The freeway buckled, slumped like rubber. Six onsite...

23.04.2024 10

WA Today

David Astle

‘Omnishambles’ caught our attention but its origin might surprise you

Leaving port, loaded to the gills, the MV Dali struck Baltimore’s bridge. Girders crumpled. The freeway buckled, slumped like rubber. Six onsite...

23.04.2024 8

The Sydney Morning Herald

David Astle

‘Omnishambles’ caught our attention but its origin might surprise you

Leaving port, loaded to the gills, the MV Dali struck Baltimore’s bridge. Girders crumpled. The freeway buckled, slumped like rubber. Six onsite...

23.04.2024 10

The Age

David Astle

‘Omnishambles’ caught our attention but its origin might surprise you

Leaving port, loaded to the gills, the MV Dali struck Baltimore’s bridge. Girders crumpled. The freeway buckled, slumped like rubber. Six onsite...

23.04.2024 10

Brisbane Times

David Astle

Taylor Swift’s poetic licence: why all the fuss around her new album title?

Seldom has a squiggle caused such a fuss, or more a squiggle’s absence. Three weeks back, this masthead’s own “word-herder” Joanne Anderson...

17.04.2024 8

WA Today

David Astle

Taylor Swift’s poetic licence: why all the fuss around her new album title?

Seldom has a squiggle caused such a fuss, or more a squiggle’s absence. Three weeks back, this masthead’s own “word-herder” Joanne Anderson...

17.04.2024 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

David Astle

Taylor Swift’s poetic licence: why all the fuss around her new album title?

Seldom has a squiggle caused such a fuss, or more a squiggle’s absence. Three weeks back, this masthead’s own “word-herder” Joanne Anderson...

17.04.2024 10

The Age

David Astle

Taylor Swift’s poetic licence: why all the fuss around her new album title?

Seldom has a squiggle caused such a fuss, or more a squiggle’s absence. Three weeks back, this masthead’s own “word-herder” Joanne Anderson...

17.04.2024 20

Brisbane Times

David Astle

In praise of the eggcorn, the English language’s most logical mistake

Jo lived next door, a widow in her 80s, with pain and a Cairn terrier as companions. Her twilight ritual was walking the block, a patient loop lending...

15.04.2024 9

WA Today

David Astle

In praise of the eggcorn, the English language’s most logical mistake

Jo lived next door, a widow in her 80s, with pain and a Cairn terrier as companions. Her twilight ritual was walking the block, a patient loop lending...

15.04.2024 9

The Sydney Morning Herald

David Astle

In praise of the eggcorn, the English language’s most logical mistake

Jo lived next door, a widow in her 80s, with pain and a Cairn terrier as companions. Her twilight ritual was walking the block, a patient loop lending...

15.04.2024 10

The Age

David Astle

In praise of the eggcorn, the English language’s most logical mistake

Jo lived next door, a widow in her 80s, with pain and a Cairn terrier as companions. Her twilight ritual was walking the block, a patient loop lending...

15.04.2024 10

Brisbane Times

David Astle

When it comes to catchphrases, this film goes straight to the poolroom

“Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” And Forrest Gump’s mama was right too, both about...

05.04.2024 10

WA Today

David Astle

When it comes to catchphrases, this film goes straight to the poolroom

“Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” And Forrest Gump’s mama was right too, both about...

05.04.2024 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

David Astle

When it comes to catchphrases, this film goes straight to the poolroom

“Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” And Forrest Gump’s mama was right too, both about...

05.04.2024 7

The Age

David Astle

When it comes to catchphrases, this film goes straight to the poolroom

“Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” And Forrest Gump’s mama was right too, both about...

05.04.2024 10

Brisbane Times

David Astle

A second, minute or hour? What counts as a jiffy

Got a second? Maybe two? You won’t need long to read this column. A blink at least, a dozen heartbeats, as today we mark a timely term turning 240...

27.03.2024 7

WA Today

David Astle

A second, minute or hour? What counts as a jiffy

Got a second? Maybe two? You won’t need long to read this column. A blink at least, a dozen heartbeats, as today we mark a timely term turning 240...

27.03.2024 8

The Sydney Morning Herald

David Astle

A second, minute or hour? What counts as a jiffy

Got a second? Maybe two? You won’t need long to read this column. A blink at least, a dozen heartbeats, as today we mark a timely term turning 240...

27.03.2024 9

The Age

David Astle

A second, minute or hour? What counts as a jiffy

Got a second? Maybe two? You won’t need long to read this column. A blink at least, a dozen heartbeats, as today we mark a timely term turning 240...

27.03.2024 9

Brisbane Times

David Astle

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