We’ve now reached the halfway point in our February Friday Follies! Today the Grammar Cop features two print errors and a lovely (read: dumb) verbal boo-boo on the part of a Republican presidential-race contender.
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Friday Follies #26 – 3 mistakes that make me go “Arghhh”!
Welcome back, Folly-ites! Here are the Grammar Cop’s picks o’ the week.
Friday Follies #25 – 3 mistakes that make me go “Arghhh”!
Hi all! Here is this week’s mini-roundup of gaffes as collected by your servant, the ever-humble Grammar Cop Extraordinaire.
Why you shouldn’t choose a book publisher via Craigslist
Feast your eyes, people!
Friday Follies #24 – 3 mistakes that make me go “Arghhh”!
(YES I’m early!) I don’t know about you, but the Grammar Cop has lately been noticing a drastic increase in wrong-wordism. (Look, I’m sure there’s an actual term for that, but this G.C. never claimed to have a PhD in Pedantics.)
Friday Follies #23 – 4 mistakes that make me go “Arghhh”!
This week the Grammar Cop spent some time pondering why it is that ethnic-type restaurants refuse to hire proofreaders for their menus.
Friday Follies #22 – 3 mistakes that make me go “Arghhh”!
Okay! The Grammar Cop is back from her holidays and has nailed three spelling infractions. Here they are for your reading pleasure!
Friday Follies #21 – 10 New Year’s Resolutions for the Grammatically Challenged
First of all, to everyone:
HAPPY NEW YEAR – MAY IT BE SWEET, SMART AND SAFE!
(and free of alliterative bloggers!)
And now…
10 Resolutions for the Grammatically Challenged
Friday Follies #20 – a bunch of mistakes that make me go “Arghhh”!
Further to my December 21st post on dating for the age-impaired, I thought I would point out some of the little gaffes that abound in the profiles I’ve been scanning lately. (Hope springs eternal!) These are direct quotes, copied and pasted – followed of course by my snarky comments in brackets.
Friday Follies #19 – Four mistakes that make me go “Arghhh”!
The Grammar Cop is always alert to catch a variety of flubs – all things language-related, including misspellings, grammatical bloopers, homonym confusion and the like. I do not, however, bother with typos. All of us are guilty of those from time to time. Here’s a sampling of egregious errors from this week.
Crossed Eyes and Dotted Tees 