That John Pisani is a total cretin, a moron, an idiot, and pea-brained illiterate who shouldn’t even be hired to scrape a turd off the editor’s boot.

They’re so abysmally ignorant, aren’t they? So they’ve never heard of the Prussian junkers.

This is like “Boko Haram” pronounced like “saram”, or “Al Qaeda” pronounced like “Qajjenza” (on Net TV, mind). It means they’ve never heard the word elsewhere, and that’s very worrying indeed. I’d fire them all.

I hasten to add that I have the utmost respect for Prof. Peter Vassallo, a perfect gentleman and former excellent teacher and later lecturer of mine. I agree that Raphael Vassallo’s English is higher than the average of that employed in Maltese media.

[Daphne – ‘Is correct English genetically transmitted?’ No, but it is quite obviously transmitted in the home.]

Wrong. There is no such thing as a luggage bag. Luggage is not the contents of your bags, but the bags themselves. And its’s boot, not booth, which is another thing altogether.

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/luggage

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/luggage

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/luggage

With the advent of American television channels, parents brought up saying “Christmas Father” are now saying … “Santa Claus” as well as “awesome!”, but that’s an entirely different matter.

You missed the other one.

A “luggage” or a suitcase can never be a false alarm. Or any alarm at all.

You cannot say things like ‘a water’ in English but you can say ‘a glass of water’. The same applies to ‘luggage’. You need to define it by saying ‘a piece of luggage’, because the word is uncountable. The same thing applies to words like ‘furniture’.