Casting Nasturtiums http://castingnasturtiums.com A humorous look at the English language Fri, 19 Feb 2010 11:43:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Local Newspaper Article http://castingnasturtiums.com/2009/12/02/local-newspaper-article/ http://castingnasturtiums.com/2009/12/02/local-newspaper-article/#comments Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:32:03 +0000 http://www.castingnasturtiums.com/?p=620 This article was published in my local paper, the Leader Progress. ]]> http://castingnasturtiums.com/2009/12/02/local-newspaper-article/feed/ 0 Casting Nasturtiums is now in stock http://castingnasturtiums.com/2009/09/23/casting-nasturtiums-is-now-at-the-printers/ http://castingnasturtiums.com/2009/09/23/casting-nasturtiums-is-now-at-the-printers/#comments Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:24:18 +0000 http://www.castingnasturtiums.com/?p=566 “Casting Nasturtiums” has been returned from the Printers and is now in stock. No doubt we’ll find an obvious typo or three now that the print-run is done, but hopefully you’ll know what we meant. Given that the book is a somewhat pedantic critique of common errors in English we understand that we will be open to much ridicule for any errors we have made, but c’est la vie.

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Here’s a few we found on the Web:

  • “Why do Winters love to cast nasturtiums on us Autumns? This discriminatory superiority is really starting to harsh my mellow.”
    – from www.simondoonan.net/the_ny_observer/color_me_beautiful/
    Unwittingly Simon cast an aspersion on his fellow “Autumns” by his use of this incorrect expression. A “Winter” could perhaps respond by saying that it is because, with expressions like that, you make it so easy.

  • “Well, you’re taking an entirely different tact to tackle dengue fever as you’re working on the fact that only old mosquitoes transmit the disease, more on that.”
    – from www.abc.net.au/ra/innovations/stories/s1457030.htm
    What a pity the interviewer didn’t get this right, because the alliterative nature of “different tack to tackle” would have made a so much better question.

  • “Statue of Limitations – The maximum amount of time that can lapse after something happens for it to be taken to court.”
    – from www.legal-dictionary.org/legal-dictionary-s/Statue-of-Limitations.asp
    Can you believe it? Something purporting to be a legal dictionary doesn’t even realise that the law has “statutes” rather than “statues”.
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Casting Nasturtiums Front Cover

The Casting Nasturtiums Website exists to try to rid the world of some of the more nonsensical of the many common errors in English. How do we propose to do that? Ideally it would be by encouraging everyone who uses the English language as a means of communication to read (or preferably buy) the book “Casting Nasturtiums”, which could prove quite a hard road to hoe!.

Although not wanting to be seen casting nasturtiums here, why would anyone give a book about common errors in English, the title, “Casting Nasturtiums”? Its certainly a different tact, but incentified by what he has seen and heard over the years, Greg Shalless has in one foul swoop, done just that.

Let’s face it this is a fairly boring subject, but by highlighting these common errors in English with pieces of humorous verse we hope our readers will find them sufficiently amusing and memorable that they will be unlikely to ever make these mistakes again.

We strongly recommend that you check out the Preview and have a crack at The CASTING NASTURTIUMS Quiz. We are also very interested to see which responses emerge as the most popular in The Polls, so make sure you cast your vote.
 

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Who Should Read “Casting Nasturtiums”?

  • Managers
  • PAs
  • Clerks
  • Teachers
  • Writers
  • Students
  • Lawyers
  • Journalists
  • Editors
  • MCs
  • Sporting Commentators

Why? – To prevent people casting aspersions at them!

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