1. It is abysmal that a gossip writer should use spiky chit-chat from anonymous donors to make money and notoriety for herself.

2. The gossip writer for my hometown Philadelphia Inquirer used an impressive three Britishisms in two sentences in yesterday's paper: "Pop star-thesp Pink has been gushing about her daughter, Willow Sage Hart, since the Bairn was born in June 2011