Energetic response to the PS-sssst! snippet last week that pointed out the High Court of Australia, of all institutions, has misspelt ‘judgement’ on its website and gone all American by dropping the central ‘e’ to sport ‘Judgment”. See this PS News link for a refresher.
According to correspondent Sarah B, judgements in Australian courts are always ‘judgments’.
“You idiots,” Sarah launched into her message politely, “A court’s decision is always a ‘judgment’.”
“If the question is ‘Who is right – me or the High Court?’,” she continued, “the answer is ALWAYS ‘the High Court’.”
Thanks for the free legal advice Sarah.
We’ll take your learned word as gospel and see that you receive a fabulous book prize for being so helpful.
Of course the fact that your comments have been agreed to by a team if idiots may not make your day but hopefully the book prize will.
Lousy typo
Congratulations now to Opposition Senator Louise Pratt of Western Australia for being one of the many politicians elevated to greatness, for her appointment as shadow Assistant Minister for Universities and Equality.
Lesser congratulations to the good Senator’s media machine which issued the formal announcement of her appointment with only a passing glance at the spellchecker, if at all, and which failed to notice the creative spelling of her first name.
“Lousie Pratt – Media Release – Appointment as shadow Assistant Minister for Universities and Equality….” was the headline that greeted the world.
Could Senator Pratt be suffering from a roving ‘i’ perhaps!
Heads it is again
Another remarkable headline worth remarking on now, found on one of the last announcements by the newly-promoted Minister for Defence Industry, welcoming the high level of enthusiasm being shown by private contractors engaged to build Australia’s next fleet of underwater navy vessels.
“Local companies jump on board Future Submarines,” was the acrobatic choice of words chosen to head up the official announcement.
PS-sssst! wonders however whether jumping on board a submarine is the best way for an aspirant contractor to display their underwater skills or whether jumping inside the sub would be wiser.
Either way, the mass jump-on could be an opportunity for Defence to see first hand which of the contractors were most likely to be on the job for the long haul.
Intuition the winner!
To Rama Gaind’s weekly giveaway now in which the queen of book reviews offers the prize of two copies of the book Intuitive by Craigh Wilson, the thoughtful guide to making better personal decisions.
To join the intuitive winners, all Rama needed competition entrants to tell her was the name of the person who possessed the rare gift of being an ‘intuitive’ – the answer being, rather obviously, Craigh Wilson.
And the first correct entries to be extracted from the PS News Barrel of Booty belonged to Kerry F of the Australian Bureau of Statistics in Canberra and Tony M from the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet in Queensland.
Congratulations to Kerry and Tony on their wins and thanks to everyone who tried their hand at Rama’s testing quiz. The prizes will be despatched very soon.
In the meantime, for another chance to join Rama’s circle of winners simply sneak up on this week’s competition at this PS News link.
Good luck to all!
Initially speaking
And finally, for many mild-mannered readers of this great metropolitan newspaper, the thrill of seeing the initials of our name put to good use abbreviating a high profile person or organisation can be quite a personal compliment.
It implies to those of us with popular initials that we have some sort of link to the semi-eponymous entity whose abbreviation is the same as our own.
It will come as no surprise therefore that your PS-sssst! correspondent is just as vain as the next person and although my initials have been snapped up by almost every football club in the country with nary a reference to me, I’ve grown to be over it these days.
That doesn’t stop me from experiencing a personal thrill that the planned merger of the Family Court of Australia with the Federal Circuit Court of Australia reported this week is to produce a new ‘Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia’ which in turn will be abbreviated as FCFC.
Such an honour!
In fact it’s so rare that this single FC is almost emboldened to do something court-worthy to experience the delight of appearing in a doubly-initialled relative.
Probably not!
Till next week…..
