Sic!
All three Sic! entries from Michael Quinion’s World Wide Words column this week are priceless. The first had me cracking up when it arrived in my inbox at work:
From Jonathan Spencer: “Your piece on Murphy’s Law reminded this
transplanted Brit living in New York of being temporarily taken
aback by the sign on a local highway after the median had been
returfed. KEEP OFF SOD, it said”.
This note in the Daily Telegraph’s television guide last Wednesday
was presumably the result of a unconscious mental association and
not an ill-judged attempt at a joke: “With the Pope’s health fast
failing, critics argue that this is not the time for the BBC to
pontificate”.
Dermod Quirke mentioned a letter from Professor Yiannis Gabriel,
which appeared in the Guardian on 24 September (see the Web page
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,1048372,00.html):
“Why should childless parents pay taxes to fund schools?”
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