Carol Vorderman metamorphosises into Sarah Palin on BBC Question Time

The word you were looking for is, “Metamorphoses”. Another victim of “Education, Education, Education” exposed. Not even taught how to use a spell-checking program, poor thing. Ms. Vodermann did a really good job on exposing Labour hypocrisy on non-doms though, didn’t she? Nothing to do, of course, with this tatty little piece of hate-mail.

Carol came across as likeable as Marmite. Perhaps an acquired taste, but horrid to the majority!

In a Qiuestyion Time that generally had some good, lively debate, Carol Vorderman was a big disappointment & out of her depth. She appeared to almost totally depend upon prepared scripts, engaged in very little eye-contact with the camera for an experienced tv broadcaster, & was frequently abrasive & dismissive towards other panellists. If she is to appear on similar tv or radio shows again she needs some coaching about how to debate Meanwhile, please can we have a rest from her media appearances? She is in danger of losing some faithful fans.

Carol Voorderman, the thinking man’s Geri Halliwell, that head down delivery made me think she may have been reading directly from a copy of the Daily Mail. How did that piece of wood called Lord Adonis get so far in politics? He came across like a customer services manager of Halfords. Funny how the audience just seemed to tune out the difficult stuff Will self had to say about the Bulger case.

@Grumpy Old Man: I did spell this wrong but because I used an ‘a’ instead of an ‘o’ i.e. metamorphasises and not metamorphosises. Oxford English Dictionary –

metamorphosize, v.
Forms: 18- metamorphosise, 19- metamorphosize. [< metamorphos- (in METAMORPHOSIS n.) + -IZE suffix. Compare earlier METAMORPHOSE v.]

1. trans. To cause to undergo a change of form, nature, or character; to metamorphose (a person or thing).

2. intr. To undergo a change of form, nature, or character; to metamorphose.

“Metamorphosises” is therefore surely the correct tense to use here?

If I can’t spell properly you can blame the Tories

@Political Scrapbook, your use of tense is correct and arguably preferable. While the grapheme “metamorphoses” is acceptable, it is unclear, as it is represents the plural of “metamorphosis” as well as the third person present form of “metamorphose”.

I think there is a spelling shift issue here, as well. If Oxford spelling (with z preferred over s in these contexts), were not now regarded as somehow American, the clearest option for a writer of British English would be “metamorphosizes”, thus avoiding the unruly cluster of esses at the end. However, this seems to be a point on which American and British spelling are diverging, so we are left with the awkward choice between two somewhat unsatisfactory words.

As above, any flaws in my argument can be ascribed to a Tory run education, any strengths are entirely my own doing.

She did look and clearly was out of her depth and honestly sounded like a drunken person at times. I was anticipating for Boris or David Dimbley to say come on Carol we all had a drink. But that would have just exasperated the situation, she probably would have snapped out at them.

Me and my girlfriend buy vegetrain food from the supermarket, some years ago Carol Vorderman starting appearing in pictures on the packaging for some of the items, we hated her so much even then before this display of shallow right wing populism that we removed the packaging because the thought of her put us off the idea of eating the food. She has always had a reputuation for being personally a bit odd, she had a very awkward relationship with her own father who she reputedly refused to speak to for years due to some family problem or other, the idea of her being a fitting person to influence what maths lessons my children follow is only slightly less frightening than the idea that she should be allowed to pontificate on subjects such as the family, law making etc