On Sunday, 21 February 2016 22:13:37 UTC, John Hall wrote:
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haaark writes
I know it's been many years since the DT and ST were real quality
broadsheets. I also know that the circulation of hard copy is in its
death spiral-five years maybe I'd guess before the anachronism of
sending hundreds of tons of newsprint round the country every day comes
to an end, anyone?-and the papers must be haemorrhaging cash.
Phillip Eden's successor at the ST is Peter Stanford,a lightweight
waffler who today came up with a classic.
Talking about the two ways of looking at winter's end, he said that one
way was the end of February, and the other was the astrological
way-i.e.March 21st.
Like almost everybody and his wife these days, he must have a degree.
Did he get it from the University of Glastonbury?


Yes, I spotted that too. One really would think that even someone with
an arts background (which I suspect he has) wouldn't mix up the words
"astronomy" and "astrology", and that even if he did the sub-editor
would ask him whether that was what he meant.
--
John Hall
"Honest criticism is hard to take,
particularly from a relative, a friend,
an acquaintance, or a stranger." Franklin P Jones

Jeremy Paxman must have an arts degree but it hasn't stopped him from mispronouncing "meteorology" as "metreology". Meretricious - get a grip, Paxo.

Tudor Hughes.