The word "obituary" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a published notice or announcement of a death, usually including a brief biography of the person who died. You can use it in formal and informal writing. Example sentence: The local newspaper printed an obituary for John, who died peacefully at the age of 93.
Schlesinger's attitude to work made him impatient with fellow British directors, notably Lindsay Anderson (obituary, September 1 1994), whom he considered over-selective and unable (or, as he said, unwilling) to work regularly.
Do you have a number for his obituary planner?' Breakfasts cost from just $14.
However, they all managed to work together in the negotiations that led, in December 1973, to the Sunningdale Agreement, brokered by the Conservative prime minister Ted Heath (obituary, July 18), and in the shortlived power-sharing executive that took office in January 1974.
Patrick Ensor (obituary, July 3) was a ferociously sharp journalist, clever, dedicated, hugely industrious - shamingly so to many of his colleagues like me - and hugely creative.
See Friedman's obituary, quantity theory of money.
It all begins to sound like a show business obituary until Crerand takes the curse off it: "You know what they say here.
Media outlets that took at face value a BBC reporter's tweet about the Queen's hospitalisation and death, which were released accidentally during an internal "obituary exercise", are feeling a little sheepish right now.
Jacobs is not the only recipient to have mixed feelings about being given what is pretty much the obituary of awards.
A rogue tweet by a BBC reporter after an obituary rehearsal led several major international news organisations to wrongly report that Queen Elizabeth had been admitted to hospital.
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.
