Oxford city guide
I was looking for things to do for the bank holiday tomorrow, and came across this new site - the Oxford City Guide. One of the irritations of the internet is that searching for generic phrases like “what to do in …”, “hotel in …” and “sightseeing in …” usually brings up vast numbers of commercial sites with little content but excellent search engine marketing. But OCG is a little gem - pretty much entirely up-to-date, no huge errors that this eight-year resident could see, and lots of useful little features such as the lists of shops by street. It also has an RSS feed of weekly Oxford listings, which is what I was looking for in the first place. Now all I have to do is persuade Jo that she wants to spend her bank holiday at a craft and country fair at Blenheim Palace!
The only quibble I have with the site is that it sometimes slips into an odd Americanese - “Clarendon Center” being the obvious example. Anyway, if you’re planning to visit our beautiful city anytime soon, do take a look.
The amount of times I went to Blenheim as a small child and knew nothing of it’s history
Has a nifty small railway though! Or did in the early 1980s!
Good luck with that!!
Sorry Paul - I don’t usually do this kind of thing, but that particular error gets me every time. You have been to Blenheim on a countable number of occasions. You should therefore refer to “the number of times” rather than “the amount of times”.
It’s the same error as is made by supermarkets advertising lanes for “8 items or less” when they mean “8 or fewer items”.
Paul: (hangs head in shame, esp given his GCSE in English language)
Thanks for the write-up Antonia! I changed Center to Centre. Thanks for catching my error. If you find anything else, let me know! I’d hate for my spelling to give away my nationality.
Oh no not another Oxford Gude web site?