The phrase "ago entitled" is not correct and does not make sense in written English.
It seems to be a combination of two separate ideas that do not logically connect.
Example: "The book was published a year ago, and it was entitled 'The Great Adventure.'"
Alternatives: "previously titled" or "formerly named".
Another guest reminds the group of a column that appeared in the Nouvelliste a few years ago, entitled "Every Haitian Has His Own Foreigner Reserved for Himself".
Certainly, there are satirical elements in the work, like Pratchett's prescient invention of a Discworld local-government tourism leaflet, many years ago, entitled: "Soe you're A Barbariean Invader?" But that's not all that's going on, as Pratchett agrees.
He wrote a book a few years ago entitled The Natural Art Of Seduction – a more British approach based on less aggressive techniques than The Game, but with the same intended outcome.
Still, the lead single, Crazy in Love, has been blitzkrieging the US charts, and wall-to-wall TV coverage will do the rest (not least Knowles's pay-to-view TV spectacular a couple of weeks ago, entitled Ford Presents Beyonce Knowles, Friends and Family, Live from Ford's 100th Anniversary Celebration in Dearborn, Michigan).
I've been thinking about this since reading Robert Scoble's post a couple days ago entitled "Why I'm treating startups more critically lately".
The context really goes back to a paper that I wrote 30 years ago entitled "Physical Exercise as an Evolutionary Force".
Unmarried couples who split up could be in for a nasty shock about who owns their home: appeal judges have ruled that a man who left his partner 17 years ago was entitled to a half share in the house even though he had never paid the mortgage.
My friend Hind Makki wrote a piece on this a few weeks ago appropriately entitled Where's My Space to Pray in This Mosque?
What did his mother teach him all those years ago about feeling entitled to his place?
The practice was eventually abandoned in the 1970s, and 11 years ago a report entitled Bringing Them Home recommended a formal apology to the stolen generation.
He pauses for a moment and then adds: "I had to give a talk a few months ago and I entitled it, 'Don't try this at home: lessons learned from a recovered entrepreneur'.
