The word "watcher" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to someone who is guarding or monitoring something or someone, or to describe someone or something that observes events. For example: "The security guards were assigned as watchers to ensure that no one entered the restricted area."
When it comes to matters sartorial, it's usually the Duchess of Cambridge who creates a fashion furore, as every style watcher on the planet analyses every thread, every seam, every button of her carefully chosen ensembles.
But it was almost wholly the work of Brown, who is credited with doing the most in the final two weeks of the campaign to stabilise the no vote and save the union – in the words of the veteran Whitehall watcher Peter Riddell, it was "Gordon's second premiership".
During this time, Mr Murray was something of a passive watcher.
As Carl Bildt, a former Swedish foreign minister and longtime Russia watcher, puts it, Mr Putin now has an explicitly revisionist agenda under which he is seeking to change the post-cold-war settlement of Europe through an information war and, if need be, by military force.
(For a witty repartee about early Google TV models' remote controls and keyboards, read what Danny Sullivan, a veteran Google watcher, had to say about his first day with one).
The Democrats' manual saysYour primary job is to ensure that every eligible voter who wants to vote gets to voteThe Republicans, on the other hand, go withYour most important duty as a poll watcher is to challenge people who present themselves to vote but who are not authorized to voteIn the end, the Post sees no conspiracy to suppress the vote.
The rise of the binge-watcher, gobbling every episode of a new series in two or three days, has led to a growing desire for instant gratification.
"There'll be a total ban on cross-border advertising," Tim Phillips of industry-watcher ECigIntelligence tells me.
It is a post-imperial rage, stirred by violent history, anti-Semitism and unresolved political tension: "France itself is still under attack from the angry and dispossessed heirs to the French colonial project".This is the provocative thesis of "The French Intifada", an important new book by Andrew Hussey, dean of the University of London Institute in Paris and a veteran France-watcher.
Ed Whelan, a conservative court-watcher, jeers that this "nicely captures Elena Kagan's remoteness from the lives of most Americans".Court-watchers on the left are a little unsettled by Ms Kagan's lack of a paper trail.
Creation care is only part of it: the urge to enhance national security by lessening America's dependence on foreign oil is important too.The new mood reflects a generational change among evangelicals, says Andrew Walsh, a religion-watcher at Trinity College, Hartford.
