This on screen typo was handled perfectly by a Canadian news outfit who responded on Twitter with: "Many of our viewers noticed an unfortunate typo at the end of tonight's Global News at 5. We'll 'b' more careful in the future."
Plenty of action on a Sunday drive
Colin and Gabrielle Kemplen write: "A few Sundays ago, heading to the bach on the Thames Coast, we took a shortcut down a quiet side road after lunch at Mangatarata. We came round a corner and noticed a car parked just off the road in a farm gateway. The driver and his lady friend were not farmers and they had obviously found it rather warm after lunch, had taken all their clothes off ... Still chuckle about the location of their love tryst."
Origins of First Lady
The American term "First Lady" is not a recognised "title". When America separated from British rule, all British titles and honorifics were abandoned, and America started to invent its own honorifics - Representative, Congress Person, Oscar Nominee, Senator, Mr President. There was a time of uncertainty about how Mr President's his wife could be described. Neither "Mrs President" nor "President-ess" seemed particularly graceful. In 1849, during the tenure of 12th president Zachary Taylor, there came the funeral of Dolley Madison, the hugely popular widow of the 4th president. At her funeral, President Taylor is reputed to have said: "She will never be forgotten because she was truly our first lady for a half-century." And the term "First Lady" has been in use (completely informally) ever since. (Source: Who Said That First by Max Cryer)
