Release level to stop
Since the picture is too far away and blurry, you’ll have to take my word for it that these are the steps for using this Downtown Line fire extinguisher: [pull out the pin, presumably]...
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I gladly concede the loss of historical ‘decimate’.
That’s part of page 105 of the 1952 edition of Fowler’s Dictionary of Modern English Usage. I looked up the word after I read the plot summary in the Wikipedia entry about the film...
Noun noun noun noun
This is a notice in the lift here in Kent Vale notifying residents of the management’s intent to conduct an exercise in which they will clear the bicycles that have been abandoned in the...
Longing for longans
This is a box of longan fruit. The longan is a kind of fruit related to lychee and rambutan. The text on the box says: Fresh Longan Longing for longans… grab a handful of...
Words related to ‘receive’
The word ‘recipient’ sounds weird here because normally (I would think) a recipient is a person, and the instructions are obviously talking about a thing (a container or ‘receptacle’). The words ‘recipient’ and ‘receptacle’...
No Admin Fee and GST
This is a sticker on the inside of the window in a taxi. It says: NO ADMIN FEE & GST when you pay with Dash! Even assuming you like the ampersand in this font...
How to punctuate dialog
Good writing is self-effacing. Personally, when I’m critiquing fiction, I find it very, very difficult to evaluate things like character, plot, and pacing if there are a lot of distracting technical errors. One easily...
Wear and use your personal protective equipments
Pluralized uncountable nouns are a pet peeve of mine. The one that’s most frequently publicly wrong is ‘equipments’ because it’s posted at every construction site, and there are a lot of construction sites. equipments...
Main Wait
Nice new 12-story building? Check. Nifty quasi-anatomical logo? Check. Building signs checked by English expert? Nope. The signs in this waiting area at the National Heart Centre Singapore say “Main Wait” when they should...