Welcome back to the Grammar Cop’s lair, FF fans! More muddled mistakes await your perusal. This week they’re all from a local tabloid, Montreal Times, giving the gaffe-prone Suburban a little competition.
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Friday Follies #105 – Making Grammar Great Again, One Hyphen at a Time
Greetings, fellow language lovers! The Grammar Cop has prepared a super all-Suburban set of gaffes for you this week. (This paper alone can keep her in business!)
Friday Follies #104 – Making Grammar Great Again, One Hyphen at a Time
Hi again, Friday Follies followers. Oh, how the Grammar Cop wishes more publishers would hire proofreaders! Then our eyes would be spared the sight of these bungled boo-boos:
Friday Follies #80 – 3 mistakes that make me go “Arghhh”
Welcome back, FF fans! Well, it seems that whenever the Grammar Cop gets low on material, she can always count on our weekly local rag newspaper, say it with me now: The Suburban. So without further ado, here are this week’s awful aberrations found therein.
Friday Follies #78: 2 mistakes that make me go “Arghhh” – and 2 bits of perfection!
Hi again, Friday Follie-ites. Today marks a first for the Grammar Cop. Besides presenting the usual besmirched boo-boos of the week, she is actually going to laud a couple of examples of correct grammar… a rarity!
Friday Follies #69 – 3 articles that make me go “Arghhh”
“3 articles”? Yes, that’s what I said, unlike the usual “3 mistakes.” Why? Because the Grammar Cop found three articles, all in The Suburban, our (in)famous weekly paper, chock-full of errors. Sigh. Here’s the list of winners (losers?) in this week’s bonanza of bloopers.
Crossed Eyes and Dotted Tees 