Nothing Freudian in upsetting the apple tart with verbal blunders

All sorts of verbal blunders swim through our sentences like bubbles in champagne.

They occur on average once every 10 words, by some accounts. So if people say an average of 15,000 words each day, that’s about 1,500 verbal blunders a day.

When the man in my life decided this weekend to bring the builders a tray laden with mugs of coffee, they were delighted. They downed tools, walked out into the Indian summer sunshine, sat down on a low wall and imbibed.