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Month: November 2016

Arrival

November 26, 2016November 27, 2016 ~ Ellie ~ 1 Comment

SPOILER ALERT! Do not read this if you haven’t seen the movie. You have been warned! 😉

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Friday Follies #66 – 3 mistakes that make me go “Arghhh”

November 25, 2016November 25, 2016 ~ Ellie ~ 13 Comments

Good to see you again, Friday Folliestas! This week the Grammar Cop brings you another trio of terrible boo-boos. And she is sorry she couldn’t find a synonym for “boo-boo” starting with a “t.” Ah well, such is life.

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Book Progress Report #11

November 21, 2016November 21, 2016 ~ Ellie ~ 2 Comments

Hi all! As you will cleverly figure out, this is an update to my last update, which was Book Progress Report #10. If this seems like a never-ending process, that’s because it apparently is. (Insert eye-roll emoji here.)

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Friday Follies #65 – 3 mistakes that make me go “Arghhh”

November 18, 2016November 18, 2016 ~ Ellie ~ 7 Comments

Welcome back, fellow grammarphiles – and grammarphobes! Today the Grammar Cop will focus her razor-sharp-but-jaundiced eye on several related misdemeanours.

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60 years: Then and Now

November 13, 2016November 27, 2016 ~ Ellie ~ 13 Comments

Things sure were different in 1956.

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Friday Follies #64 – 4 mistakes that make me go “Arghhh”

November 11, 2016November 11, 2016 ~ Ellie ~ 2 Comments

Hi FF fans! Today the Grammar Cop is going to provide you with an extra teensy challenge. She will list the infractions but leave it until the end to explain what they were. That will give you more time to spot them yourselves.

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Carrot Foam?

November 6, 2016November 6, 2016 ~ Ellie ~ 6 Comments

I speak to you today as a lover of plain food. Not for me the aforesaid carrot foam (orange goop!), braised deer slices (bye-bye Bambi! 😦 ) or pickled quail eggs. I am of the opinion that only pickles should be pickled. But that’s just me.

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Friday Follies #63 – 3 mistakes that make me go “Arghhh”

November 4, 2016 ~ Ellie ~ 2 Comments

Due to an unpleasant temporary gastric upset (I won’t be more detailed than that… and even that’s probably TMI), the Grammar Cop wasn’t sure she she was going to manage her Friday Follies column. But wonder of wonders! She is better! So here you go – a few spelling disasters for you.

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