Supermodel Naomi Campbell scooped the Plain English Campaign’s annual “Foot in Mouth” prize, Monday.
Campbell grasped this year’s award for her patriotic observation in British cuisine. Super model quoted,
I love England, especially the food. There’s nothing I like more than a lovely bowl of pasta.
Campbell left behind Wales’s First Minister Rhodri Morgan to the honor of the year’s best example of mixed metaphor, mangled syntax or plain stupidity and dispossessed him of a hat-trick of wins.
Former England cricketer and presently commentator Geoffrey Boycott got two nominations while US president George Bush had to be satisfied with one.
The Labor Party politician in a Welsh Assembly debate said,
But obviously the issue is that if you had another 450 million pounds from somewhere else, you have got another 450 million pounds, but what does that tell you? That is like saying, if my auntie was a bloke, she would be my uncle.
Geoffrey Boycott said, The proof of the pudding is at the end of the day and I’ll cross that chestnut when I come to it.
The British-based Australian academic and writer Germaine Greer won the campaign’s “Golden Bull” award, which recognizes the “worst examples of written tripe”.
Dave Smith, from the Plain English Campaign told AFP the examples are light-hearted but their annual awards still showed the need for public documents to be written in clear English that everyone can understand.
So Ms. Campbell was admired for her nonsensical language (gobbledygook) and few weeks ago she was in spotlight for accusing her maid over a pair of missing jeans.
