Loosing? Learn the English language, people!

Jailed: Drug dealer who was caught after leaving heroine and his ID in a jacket

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/jailed-drug-dealer-who-was-caught-after-leaving-heroine-and-his-id-in-a-jacket-a3237511.html

It's the capital letter after the colon and the lack of a full stop, isn't it?

What could be more obvious?

Is it possible to 'escalate that up '?
I will ask that question and have that conversation.

crap buzzwords

It's possible, if a little tautological. 'Escalate' already implies upwards movement, but then again, Westlife had a hit with a chorus that went: "You raise me up..."

We often lift things up when "lift" alone would presumably suffice.

Sadiq Khan to sell Boris Johnson's three water cannons that costed £200,000

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/sadiq-khan-to-sell-three-water-cannon-which-boris-johnson-bought-for-200000-a3285601.html

Lift is different. Ordinarily it implies up but it can also be used in the sense of lift over which does not imply any alteration in ultimate elevation. Escalate though is unidirectional meaning to move up. It is evolving to mean increase, as in the fire's intensity has escalated, although that would seem to have developed from a contraction of the fire's level has escalated; ie moved up a scale of measurement.

Is this about cannon(s) or relative pronouns ;)

I'm not sure what point you're making really, but...yes?

I thought the plural of cannon was cannon and that only where a number of clerics are members of a cathedral did you then have canons.

When people are being interviewed on television and describe their excitement or fear by proclaiming that their heart "was going ten to the dozen" when it should be nineteen to the dozen.

'shot dead' or 'shot and killed'?

Have you been given the choice?

asking for a friend

Your allways writing the wrongs off peoples mishtaks. Well-done.

Shot dead is finite whereas shot and killed could be ambiguous, if it matters. Perhaps it wasn't the shot that caused the death.

The Guardian confuses itself with a New York airport

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An odd one in the Summer 2016 Arrivée magazine. An otherwise lovely article by Idai Makaya on his solo ElliptiGO LEJOG is rather spoiled by his persistent incorrect use of the past perfect where the narrative tense should be the past. Strange that the editor didn't pick that up, as it's so obvious and makes reading it rather tortuous, especially as it's a great ride report.

Arrivee reports are essentially unedited.

Why is that? I'm obviously aware that it's all voluntary work and realise that the vast majority of articles don't need editing, this one being an exception. I just think that something as obvious as that must be edited before publication.

I keep seeing 'has/have showed' lately, seemingly much more often than usual.

And how does that make you feel?

My heart starts, missing a beat. Every time.

Oh bae

As the personal physician to a multi millionaire presidential hopeful, you'd hope for better.