The Memorabilaciousness of Bush
By Graham Davies

On his retirement, George Bush will definitely not be joining the professional speaking circuit. After all, the words “Bush”, “professional” and “speaking” do not sit comfortably in the same sentence.

This is a man leaving a linguistic legacy more memorable than his political one.

His war on terror has been a lot less successful than his war on grammar, and whilst people might want to dispute whether he rode roughshod over human rights in Guantanamo Bay, there can be absolutely no disagreement that he is unequivocally guilty of slaughtering English syntax and pronounciation. There was always the suspicion that he only suspended Habeas Corpus because he couldn’t pronounce it.

But let’s not misunderestimate the Bush legacy. Dubya may disappear from view entirely (please god) but his mystic words will live on. In other people's after dinner speeches. And not in a good way.