Alternative Hyndburn.
 

According to this weeks Accrington Observer our beloved borough has succumbed to some rather alternative spellings of place names. I refer to the story on page 2 about a house fire rescue. The house was in a part of the borough which I have never heard of, namely Osowaldtwistle. On Page 8 in a story about rowdy bus yobs, it seems that Accrington has now been double-barrelled and is now known as Accring-ton. Has the council made these changes and not consulted the people of the borough? Or is it that our esteemed local rag is desperately short of a decent proof reader....:D

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and dont know how to use it lol.

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Eye halve a spelling chequer;
It came with my pea sea;
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it to say
Weather eye am wrong oar write -
It shows me strait aweigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long,
and eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw it;
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh,
My chequer tolled me sew.

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A good proof reader...... there were some mistakes in last weeks too.......I just can't remember what they were........(it's the Old-Timers Disease you know)

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Just finished this week's Observer. I usually wait for a second hand copy to be pased on to me on Saturday, but decided l'd treat myself.:(

As well as proof readers, I think some good journalists wouldn't go amiss. Page after page of Confirmation photos? Nice for the children and their families but not at all interesting for anyone else.

The last couple of weeks have featured published stories without confirmation of all the facts, which then resulted in a retraction the following week. 'Gay hounded out of home,' being one example were all the facts only came out after publication. Same this week regarding Church and Oswaldtwistle Rotary Club and the Wizard Carnival. A phone call asking for a reaction would make for better journalism than rehashing the story with all the facts the following week, surely?

Oh, for the pre tabloid days when The Observer was weighty as well as local and worthy.

Happy to save my 45 pence next week, thanks. :)

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And the MR ANGRY column........it is soooooo contrived. I could write it better myself...or at least a better column.

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I read that drivel once.

Come on Observer, give the space to Marg P. or Acrylic-bob, anyone of those two could entertain and really provoke some thought.

I once dismissed Gayle Knight's column as l thought it wasn't really aimed at me, but it was a darn sight more entertaining and well written than this Mr Angry drivel. The only people it leaves angry are the readers.

Who writes it the office cleaner?

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I think it it written by the office cat...!

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See? Now that is catty. Just the sort of stuff l'd like.:)

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it is just the sort of stuff I could do.......swish, swish....get that tail down and put the claws away......!

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i know its old hat-but once of a day the accrington observor was a damn good paper,out twice a week and i bet sold better,than the tripe nowadays.

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DOUG-do you realise what your saying lol

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:confused: ?????????????????????????? I do now.

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4 months l've been waiting! You know l do. {pm me we'll organise first date!**

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[QUOTE=garinda]

I once dismissed Gayle Knight's column as l thought it wasn't really aimed at me, but it was a darn sight more entertaining and well written than this Mr Angry drivel.

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Thank you!

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:( It was when you first joined or just before, and l said it in one of the threads re: the bloody panoptican.

Wasn't meant personally. l did read your column, but it just seemed more aimed at females than males. Was much better than so called 'lifestyle' columnists in the Sunday papers, and l do remember how powerfully you wrote about vandalism, which l thought was excellent. :)

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:s_cry:

Very funny, l'm on the floor and not in a come hither way!

I'll live.

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Hehehe, their spell checker is obviously not effective. If our newspaper (for want of a better word) cannot be bothered to ensure correct spelling, then how on Earth can we expect kids and adults with difficulties in reading and writing to learn and understand why these things are important.

I eagerly await the next copy of A.O., as I'm sure that someone will eventually spell Hyndburn as Hyndbum......:D

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Is it true, that in April 1912, one week after the Titanic went down with the loss of 1500 lives, the headline in the Accy Observer was:


ACCRINGTON MAN IN SEA ACCIDENT


Can anyone answer?

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when i was a lad had a banger explode in my eye,thought it was great when my mum said your in the observer,until i read it -said BRAIN instead of brian,big embarrasment for an 11 year old, so it may well have been a better paper in those days,but they still couldn't ruddy SPELL lol

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I do feel slightly obliged to defend the paper, after all I did write for them for four years, but unfortunately there isn't much excuse for sloppy writing and incorrect spelling. Only defence I can offer is that they have a very small staff and a short time to produce the paper in so they aren't always able to afford each article extra time for double checking. Fortunately, they're in good company because the Independent and the Guardian are frequently just as bad. As for the Lancs Eve Tel - well, that's a whole different ball game.