FYI

Google trolls Tottenham with Oxford dictionary definition of 'lackadaisical'

The world’s most popular search engine, Google, will incur the wrath of Tottenham Hotspur fans everywhere with the team a punch line for a dictionary definition.

If one was to search the word 'lackadaisical' in the search bar, a dictionary definition reads: 'lacking enthusiasm and determination; carelessly lazy'.

All pretty standard fare, but just below it has the term as it would be used in a sentence. It states: "a lackadaisical defence left Spurs adrift in the second half".

The entry isn't the fault of Google, however. They get their definitions direct from Oxford Dictionaries, published by Oxford University Press.

The first edition was published in 1888, a second edition in 1989 and OED Online was launched in 2000.

Silly silent letters? Should spelling be simplified?

Here's (Beel-) Ze Beeb's take on the sorry process of dumbing-down education aimed at 'training', rather than educating, people, getting them to accept their dehumanised resources' status as wage slaves toiling for the ferocious entrepreneurs' private profit...

For Your Critical Thinking Skills... in case you're still entertaining lazy thoughts that this isn't really happening, and that it's merely another one of them conspiracy theories... 

Remember the Bolognese (sic!) Process and its introduction of tuition fees alongside, the American-style, 'Honey, I Shrank the University Degrees' next to a summer school before they're free to flood the post-industrial labour market?