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.
Proofreading
Friday Follies #65 – 3 mistakes that make me go “Arghhh”
Welcome back, fellow grammarphiles – and grammarphobes! Today the Grammar Cop will focus her razor-sharp-but-jaundiced eye on several related misdemeanours.
Friday Follies #64 – 4 mistakes that make me go “Arghhh”
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.
Friday Follies #63 – 3 mistakes that make me go “Arghhh”
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.
Friday Follies #61 – 3 mistakes that make me go “Arghhh”
Hi, Friday Follicles! This week’s little assortment of blunders caught by the Grammar Cop includes the following:
Friday Follies #60 – 3 mistakes that make me go “Arghhh”
Word confusion is often the result of a lack of reading. (Internet memes and rabid comments don’t count!) Here are a few examples caught by the Grammar Cop among the proliferation of recent political articles.
Friday Follies #59 – 3 mistakes that make me go “Arghhh”
Hi again, FF fans! Today’s boo-boos involve two apostrophe aberrations as well as a word that the Grammar Cop has seen confused with another, time and time again.
Friday Follies #58 – a bunch o’ mistakes that make me go “Arghhh”
Welcome back grammarphiles! The Grammar Cop has returned from her short sojourn in the U.S. Several gaffes await, all from the Montreal Gazette this time. (Only because I didn’t have a chance to read that perennial word-mangler, The Suburban.)
Friday Follies #57 – 3 mistakes that make me go “Arghhh”
Hi, fellow afficionadoes aficionados of good grammer grammar and speling spelling. Today the Grammar Cop takes a mini-holiday… from punctuation problems. She has other goodies (baddies?) to share with you.
Friday Follies #55 – 3 mistakes that make me go “Arghhh”
Hi, grammar buffs! This week the Grammar Cop’s flashlight shines on several strange examples of wording – especially strange since they are all in a “Back to School” supplement of our infamous local weekly. I mean, they might be par for the course in the error-ridden Suburban, but in a supplement focusing on education… really?
Crossed Eyes and Dotted Tees 