But you HAVE to speak that way, George. All the spelling police and the pedantic crowd are going to disect every word to make sure it is correct and in the right tense. Lord help us if we make a typo.

disect ?? Is that two sects who have combined? Or one sect that has divided in two?

Or did you mean dissect?

I actually THOUGHT I had typed "dissect", but the internet in my hotel sometimes pauses (or quits altogether) for no apparent reason and typos are a common result.

Thanks for catching it, though.

Newsreader hell

Living in Australia can be annoying when you have to listen to newsreaders referring to firemen as "firies" and politicians as "pollies" says Maxine. "But they seem to have difficulty with place names too: Worcestershire, where every syllable is read out, and necklace, is neck lace, emphasis on 'lace'; hostel is hos tell."

Not quite Auntie BEEB for learning Engrish

Newsreader hell

Living in Australia can be annoying when you have to listen to newsreaders referring to firemen as "firies" and politicians as "pollies" says Maxine. "But they seem to have difficulty with place names too: Worcestershire, where every syllable is read out, and necklace, is neck lace, emphasis on 'lace'; hostel is hos tell."

Not quite Auntie BEEB for learning Engrish

Pete, are you sitting in a giant cavern, atop a mountain peak or between the walls of a lengthy valley?

Pete, are you sitting in a giant cavern, atop a mountain peak or between the walls of a lengthy valley?

Mordor !!!! I've seen the film..................

Pete, are you sitting in a giant cavern, atop a mountain peak or between the walls of a lengthy valley?

I knew ppl flogged towels, but NOT as bad as at this hotel in Hawai'i............

Keeping tabs on towelsHotels are deploying new technology to combat one of the menaces of the hospitality industry - the towel thief. The anti-theft system, which could soon be arriving in Britain, uses washable radio-frequency tags stitched into towels, bathrobes and other linen which can trigger an alarm if removed from the premises.

The US company which patented the technology said one hotel in Hawaii which introduced the tags last year had seen towel theft tumble from 4000 a month to just 750, saving more than £9000 ($18,466) a month. "Any given month, hotels can lose 5 to 20 per cent of towels, sheets and robes. That gets expensive with the rising cost of cotton," said William Serbin, executive vice-president of Florida-based Linen Technology Tracking. (Telegraph.co.uk)

Things I learned today:

When shopping at 7/11, the trick is to order a Slurpy and then you can spend as much time as you like wandering around the shop. Your Slurpy is on the counter, so you go directly to the front of the queue. Am I wrong? No! Ask any Thai...