An NBC-TV reporter in Philadelphia noted that "legal experts say that one of them is lying."
When claims from two people, in this case the mayor of Hoboken and the lieutenant governor of New Jersey, are totally opposite, it doesn't take a genius or a lawyer to conclude that one of them is describing a situation that is factually inaccurate.
As a young reporter once asked a senior editor: "Did you ever get the feeling when working on a story that a speaker for one side is lying?"
"Of course," the editor replied. "It happens all the time. And maybe they both are."
A hospital is touting the "ambient experience" of its new MRI machine. All experience is ambient, with the possible exception of the spiritual or the intellectual. But even these happen in a time and place. By definition, "ambient" refers to your immediate surroundings.
A TV ad praises "an unique" product. The grammatical rule for using the indefinite article a and its partner an stipulates that an is used before a vowel, but this refers to the sound, not the letter. The pronunciation of "unique" begins with the sound known as a glide, represented phonetically by the symbol -y- as found in the beginning of the words "you young youth." This may be an uninteresting topic for some, but it is a unique feature of the language.
A marriage counselor asked a couple, "Do you two dialogue?"
Spouse: "You mean do we talk to each other?"
In some parts of New Jersey, the middle finger gesture is a traffic signal.
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