This week the Grammar Cop spent some time pondering why it is that ethnic-type restaurants refuse to hire proofreaders for their menus.
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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
Spelling, back in the day
I was always a pretty good speller. I would see the word once, in my school book or a library book, and somehow it was burned in my memory.
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.
Friday Follies #18 – Three mistakes that make me go “Arghhh”!
The Grammar Cop didn’t have to travel very far this time to find the Language Crimes of the week. Fittingly, they occurred in our local weekly rag, er, newspaper. Truly, folks, proper language usage is languishing. Ahem.
Friday Follies #17 – Three mistakes that make me go “Arghhh”!
The Grammar Cop brings you three bloopers gleaned from two very different sources.
Friday Follies (belated) #15 – Some mistakes that make me go “Arghhh”!
The Grammar Cop has returned fresh from the trenches of the media’s dictionary wars. I can tell you this – confusion runs rampant.
Friday Follies #4 – 3 mistakes that make me go “Arghhh”!
The Grammar Cop is getting tired. Sick and tired, actually. Look, it’s a tough job, but somebody’s gotta do it. Here we go.
Crossed Eyes and Dotted Tees 