Showing posts with label words. Show all posts
Showing posts with label words. Show all posts

05 October 2009

It's not even a proper word

There's a fascinating discussion over at Who's the Mummy, about the term "mumpreneurs". I have to say I agree with Sally Whittle - I can't stand it, and would run a mile rather than be labelled as such.

Don't get me started on the whole "Mummy blogger" debacle either.

19 July 2007

Spirit of the age

For those of you of a literary persuasion (or simply professional nitpickers like myself), there's a lovely programme on Radio 4 called Off the Page that I caught earlier in the week, discussing zeitgeist. It's funny how it turns up everywhere - Toby Young's particularly amusing on its use in fashion magazines...