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As a BA employee and an IHG Diamond member (earnt independently not 1 point or night via BA) I’ve been an avid follower of HFP for a few years now and I recommend you daily. However as an English Literature Graduate the spelling, syntax and grammar on HFP from Rob and Rhys has always grated on me. Are you using AI, spell check (is it still a thing) or are you simply speaking to your tech for your articles and then not proof reading? This has been going on for years and it’s frustrating. Given your often petty gripes around airlines and hotels, air vents, plastic wrap, plastic cups vs glasses etc (I’m Cabin Crew) I’m surprised with such a well established website and reputation you still allow poor spelling, grammar, syntax and general poor journalism to be published before proof reading and double checking? I still love HFP but it’s been a few years now and the minor faults are unnecessary after all these years.
I hope that you pass our BA moans about service and CX back up to management.
Most readers are more forgiving than this. This is an unnecessary criticism which could have been avoided by sending your complaint direct to Rob rather than posting it here in a public forum.
Rob and HFP have created so much value for most readers.
Most readers will not appreciate such silly vagaries from a newbie.As a BA employee and an IHG Diamond member (earnt independently not 1 point or night via BA)
According to Google:
Is “earnt” a valid word?
The past tense and participle of ”earn” is ”earned” – on both sides of the Atlantic. ”Earnt” doesn’t earn an entry in either the OED or Merriam-Webster, while online references seem generally to refer to it mainly in speech (most probably as a mispronunciation or misheard version of the correct spelling)
If you’re annoyed by the poor journalism you’re reading the wrong blog!
Content (and spelling etc) is aimed at a level the Merchant bankers on here who get their Nanny to read it aloud over their Kippers at breakfast can understand.
Aprt from the obvously skewed articles there are some good tidbits on here.
Don’t let it worry you, life’s too short.
Are you the BA Cabin crew leaker to PYOK?
As a BA employee and an IHG Diamond member (earnt independently not 1 point or night via BA) I’ve been an avid follower of HFP for a few years now and I recommend you daily. However as an English Literature Graduate the spelling, syntax and grammar on HFP from Rob and Rhys has always grated on me. Are you using AI, spell check (is it still a thing) or are you simply speaking to your tech for your articles and then not proof reading? This has been going on for years and it’s frustrating. Given your often petty gripes around airlines and hotels, air vents, plastic wrap, plastic cups vs glasses etc (I’m Cabin Crew) I’m surprised with such a well established website and reputation you still allow poor spelling, grammar, syntax and general poor journalism to be published before proof reading and double checking? I still love HFP but it’s been a few years now and the minor faults are unnecessary after all these years.
Did your English Literature degree also teach you an aversion to commas and paragraphs?
BTW, graduate should not be capitalised, proofreading is a single word, and well-established requires a hyphen. Additionally, your repetition of words is somewhat grating.
Quite a staggering comment really – I suspect you are one of the cabin crew that helps to give your colleagues a bad name 😎
As a BA employee and an IHG Diamond member (earnt independently not 1 point or night via BA)
What have either of both these got to do with the price of fish?
The format of most HfP articles has been the same for years.
Review articles always start off with the same sequence of words which is designed for search engine optimisation for example. It may look a little clunky but it brings in the readers.
Rob and Rhys do make mistakes but they are only human but to call them out for their supposed poor spelling, grammar and syntax when you rant also has poor spelling, grammar and syntax is more than a tad insulting.
But if this is your only complaint as a BA employee about the site then you’re obviously in agreement with all the criticism on the site about BA. Perhaps you are the one responsible for brunch and dinner gates and are 100% happy with the website.
As a BA employee and an IHG Diamond member (earnt independently not 1 point or night via BA)
According to Google:
Is “earnt” a valid word?
The past tense and participle of ”earn” is ”earned” – on both sides of the Atlantic. ”Earnt” doesn’t earn an entry in either the OED or Merriam-Webster, while online references seem generally to refer to it mainly in speech (most probably as a mispronunciation or misheard version of the correct spelling)
“Earnt” comes straight up with a Google search.
Dictionary
Definitions from Oxford Languages · Learn more
earnt
/əːnt/
verbNON-STANDARD•BRITISH
past and past participle of earn.This has got to be a wind up. It’s a travel and points blog for goodness sake; am I allowed to use the expression wind up ? I have A level English which obviously doesn’t compare with a degree, but really ? Where have you hidden your paragraphs?
English Literature graduate from where, though?
As a BA employee and an IHG Diamond member (earnt independently not 1 point or night via BA) I’ve been an avid follower of HFP for a few years now and I recommend you daily. However as an English Literature Graduate the spelling, syntax and grammar on HFP from Rob and Rhys has always grated on me. Are you using AI, spell check (is it still a thing) or are you simply speaking to your tech for your articles and then not proof reading? This has been going on for years and it’s frustrating. Given your often petty gripes around airlines and hotels, air vents, plastic wrap, plastic cups vs glasses etc (I’m Cabin Crew) I’m surprised with such a well established website and reputation you still allow poor spelling, grammar, syntax and general poor journalism to be published before proof reading and double checking? I still love HFP but it’s been a few years now and the minor faults are unnecessary after all these years.
You need to re-read your post. The grammar here is not perfect.
@ Pauly1976 as you are BA cabin crew and obviously keen to improve this site, perhaps you can help many of us with our BA queries.
I’d like to start with , when a complaint is raised on board, which cannot be resolved at the time, what do the cabin crew do with the details of that complaint? Do BA have a system for recording these issues and raising a complaint internally ?
I’m sure others have BA questions that you would be glad to help with too.English Literature graduate from where, though?
The University of BA. What BA may stand for in this particular sense I will leave others to imagine 🙂
Worth noting that as all first posts are moderated, presumably Rob or Rhys were happy to let this run. Nice to know they have confidence in the rest of us to take it apart.Wow. Publicly shitting on other people’s work is very simply never a nice thing to do.
I don’t want to be picky but just to pro
ove I do know what I’m doing 🙂*Journalism in the headline shouldn’t be capitalised
*Journalism is not the correct word to use, since the comment does not seem to be commenting on the qualify of our journalism per se
*In the first line the number ‘1’ is used – this is incorrect, numbers 1-10 should be spelt out, only numbers 11+ should be written as numbers
*The correct use of HFP is HfP
*I could be wrong here but surely Graduate should not be capitalised?
*I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt on capitalising Cabin Crew but it is written to imply it is what you do rather than a job title, which would mean you made a mistake by capitalising it
*The entire paragraph is too long for the modern style, especially because mobile readers would see it as one long block of text. It should have been split into two or possible three paragraphs, which is what we would have done.
Imagine you’re me and you need to sign-off on approximately 30x this amount of content every day, so the amount of fixing required is 30x what I’ve listed above ….
Imagine you’re me and you need to sign-off on approximately 30x this amount of content every day, so the amount of fixing required is 30x what I’ve listed above ….
I think you’re getting carried away and exaggerating a bit. Surely your content wouldn’t have anywhere near as many errors in the first place that needed fixing?
Imagine you’re me and you need to sign-off on approximately 30x this amount of content every day, so the amount of fixing required is 30x what I’ve listed above ….
I think you’re getting carried away and exaggerating a bit. Surely your content wouldn’t have anywhere near as many errors in the first place that needed fixing?
The first drafts often aren’t great 🙂
Part of the reason we only publish in the morning is that you can sit down at home at night and re-read it all!
@Pauly1976 – did you really use that opening post to berate @Rob and co for their English language and grammar usage?
Obviously Rhys has a First Class literature degree too, although as its in American literature it leads to its own issues 🙂
Can’t speak for Sinead or Katie as I hired them without seeing a CV.
Grammar police are always the most fun people. Everyone knows that.
Obviously Rhys has a First Class literature degree too, although as its in American literature it leads to its own issues 🙂
Can’t speak for Sinead or Katie as I hired them without seeing a CV.
The first its should have an apostrophe above.
I absolutely couldn’t resist. Please don’t ban me 🤣
Obviously Rhys has a First Class literature degree too, although as its in American literature it leads to its own issues 🙂
Can’t speak for Sinead or Katie as I hired them without seeing a CV.
The first its should have an apostrophe above.
I absolutely couldn’t resist. Please don’t ban me 🤣
Don’t you mean ‘The first its above should have an apostrophe’?
@Rob I’d suggest a full refund of their subs ASAP
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