19/10/10 Working with wording

Yesterday we stepped back a couple of years and re-capped on some basic English principles so that our minds were refreshed on how to correctly word things. This included taking an article from a newspaper and re writing it in just 140/160 characters, we also looked at how you can play on words using riddles.

Own found riddle;

A man was at a bar feeling poor he sees a rich man take 50's out his pocket to pay the cashier.The poor man says to the rich man "I know all the songs known to man." The rich man laughed and said,"I bet you all the money in my pocket that you can't sing a song with my daughter's name in it, Sarah Lee Greyson." The poor man went home rich and the rich man went home poor. What song did the man sing?...............................................................................................happy birthday

 I changed the article above so it was short and simple and within 140 words, this is how it read... X factor star accused of leaking saucy story about her and rival being found in bed together. Bosses were quick to play down the story and i think that's starting to show.