Morris Minor Owners Club

Sports Car Market magazine have selected my 1969 Minor 1000 Traveller as their Collectors Car of the week.

This is through Chubb Collectors Car Insurance who are a fixture on Facebook. The usual Car of the Week will be some highly expensive piece of metal from an Auction or Concours event so this is rather unusual, and unexpected.

Last week they asked FB members to post pictures of their classics onto the Chubb Collectors Car Facebook Wall and our favourite type of classic was chosen from around 400 cars, American and European, posted there by FB members.

Here's what they had to say. It's good to know that Minors are appreciated on that side of the Atlantic too.

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'wood trim'

i hope you've pointed out that it's structural!

very pleased for your news, good to see some american interest taken in something with an actual 'small-block', not the V8 kind either!

Well I, at least, love standard Minors! But I guess I'm not the general American public.

Excellent, an American that can spell "disc" correctly!

spell "disc" correctly

And now all we have to do is educate the general public that the things that stop cars are 'brakes' not 'breaks'.

I blame the comprehensive schools for these silly mistakes. You don't just see them in blogs like this (after all we are all typing as best we can and not really paying too much attention, so we can be excused occasional lapses) but you also see the same errors in newspapers, magazines, on TV in subtitles and in official documents. It seems that someone decided some time ago that spelling and clear expression no longer mattered.

Although Sainsbury have now corrected '10 items or less' to read '10 items or fewer' - I wonder who told them.

I'm fed up with presenters on TV and radio who think that an idyll is an ideal and a memento is a momento, it makes you wonder just how little they think they have to prepare for their easy money. The worst example recently was that total prat Julia Bradbury who was presenting Country File from Badminton and referred to it throughout as Badmington.

When an utterly talent free and unfunny female 'comedian' (Miranda Hart) recently won a handful of awards (demonstrating how low our standards and expectations have fallen) some ignoramus at the BBC typed 'A new series is in the offering', like 'ideal' and 'momento' it sounded right to them. The word 'offing' is in the dictionary but it would have been too much trouble to check first wouldn't it?

PS Thanks for pointing the 'wood trim' out for me, Chris, I'd missed that. An American did ask me if it was really wood though.

We just have to hold our breath and count slowly to ten.

My schooling was at a secondary mod so my English ain't as good as what your's is!
However I do agree with most of the above but stop short of calling someone a total p..... in print.
As a radio 4 listener I am becoming more and more exasperated by the poor use of English by presenters and politicians.
I am guilty of making mistakes on this forum and have sometimes missed whole words out which is a bit embarrasing when one is quoted!

Sgt Bilko, you are much more polite than I am.

Thanks for your support though.

Sorry to go off topic but,
I can't resist having a moan about the Radio Four weather presenter who every day talks about the outlook for the Middlelands and what is going to happen in the Evenning.
Roger

Roger, I live in the south so don't hear that particular abuse of the language. I used to get so cross about 'vahlance in Ahland' that I used to shout: 'VI-O-lence' and 'IRE-land' at the TV or radio.

One unexpected outcome of the Peace Process has been that my long suffering Black Labrador does not have to sigh and leave the room quite so often as before.