The word "obituaries" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use the word when referring to a written notice of a death, usually including a brief biography of the deceased. For example: The local newspaper published the obituaries of the town's prominent residents who recently passed away.
A premature death guarantees teary-eyed obituaries, friendly missives from long-standing rivals and nostalgic reviews of your final projects.
To make amends and honour the fallen soldiers, Andrew Renshaw has compiled the fully updated Wisden on the Great War: the Lives of Cricket's Fallen 1914 1918, which includes 89 new obituaries and corrects any mistakes in the 1,788 obituaries that appeared in Wisden from 1915 to 1920.
I am having my obituaries while I am still alive".
It's awful: you pick up the Guardian, and unconsciously you're turning to the obituaries page just in case there's a friend in there".
Should the British film industry ever stop making affectionate obituaries of the working class – Pride, Brassed Off, Made in Dagenham – and document current struggles instead, the Focus E15 Mothers would be a deserving subject.
In the obituaries for the late tycoon, it's been customary to distinguish between two Alan Bonds: the bad Bond who was a shonky bankrupt jailed for criminal business practices and the good Bond, who did Australia proud at Newport.
Reading obituaries of gifted, productive and distinguished men and women, I'm often struck by how many of them have come from the workaday England that lies beyond London and the home counties: a classical musician born in Halifax, a historian raised in Mansfield, and so on.
Wisden continued to publish their almanacks throughout the First World War, but as young sportsmen and cricket writers were drafted into the fighting, the remaining staff struggled to keep their obituaries free from errors.
But as well as the big moments in history, the records also mark milestones in people's personal lives; the archive includes birth and wedding announcements and obituaries.
Such talk, naturally, ended abruptly with the financial crisis.But obituaries of the Great Moderation may have been premature.
DOTCOM firms have collapsed, and all those business-cycle obituaries now look premature, but so what?
