An Oxford-educated museum curator who tweeted a guide on how to chemically destroy bronze statues has been told by police to delete the posts but continues to ignore the instruction. Madeline Odent, the privately schooled curator of Royston Museum in Hertfordshire, sent an inflammatory series of tweets to her 5,164 followers, ending with an explicit … Read more
Holly Willoughby slurs her words as as she attempts to close This Morning after squiffy presenter samples SEVEN rosé wines during boozy final segment By Jason Chester for MailOnline Published: 15:15 BST, 1 June 2020 | Updated: 15:16 BST, 1 June 2020 Holly Willoughby almost lost her composure on Monday after downing her favourite alcoholic … Read more
English teacher reveals the common mispronunciations that make you sound ‘unprofessional’ – including making an ‘x’ sound in ‘espresso’ and forgetting the first ‘r’ in February YouTuber Lucy Earl, 25, from Cambridge, vlogs under name ‘English With Lucy’ She released the guide on her channel showing how to pronounce ten words Common mispronunciations include mischievous, February … Read more
Britney Spears has been spoiling her 24.4million fans on Instagram with frequent (and often very quirky) updates on the social media platform, as she quarantines at her home in Sherman Oaks. On Wednesday, the 38-year-old pop star appeared to have an epiphany while quoting Albert Einstein, as she shared a video of herself sashaying down … Read more
Twitter users stretch words such as ‘yes’, ‘dude’ and ‘hey’ to modify their meaning, according to researchers who analysed 100 billion tweets. The US linguist experts say stretched words that convey a different meaning than the original are common feature of social media, but are rare in formal writing. For instance, ‘suuuuure’ can imply sarcasm, ‘duuuuude’ … Read more
MEMOIR The See -Through House By Shelley Klein (Chatto £16.99, 288pp) From the outside it might not look like much: one of those weird, modern, flat-roofed, single-storey, ‘architect-designed’ houses with plate-glass windows. But for Shelley Klein and her father Bernat Klein, High Sunderland in the Scottish Borders meant everything. In this remarkable, moving tribute to … Read more
Rumer Willis shows off her toned figure in SKIMS after workout as she shares some words of body positivity By Glenn Garner For Dailymail.com Published: 02:06 BST, 19 May 2020 | Updated: 05:28 BST, 19 May 2020 Rumer Willis has had plenty of downtime as she spends quarantine at home with her parents and sisters. … Read more
My younger daughter may have Down’s syndrome but she has a firm grasp of the principles of weight loss. Last week I said to her, after getting off the scales: ‘Oh dear, I’ve put on more weight.’ Her response was instant: ‘Eat less, move more!’ And to my reply that I would try to do … Read more
The wartime President of the United States, Franklin D Roosevelt, once proclaimed that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. And at this critical moment, nothing could be more true – not least when it comes to the inflammatory debate about whether or not some primary-aged children should return to the classroom … Read more
Website lets people uses powerful AI to generate made up up words like ‘rebutis’ or ‘gggrxxx’ and their corresponding definitions ThisWordDoesNotExist lets people generate made up words and definitions The site uses a powerful AI made by the Elon Musk-backed OpenAI It was trained on the 8 million most upvoted Reddit posts By James Pero … Read more