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.
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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 #12 – Three mistakes that make me go “Arghhh”!
The Grammar Cop has found a variety of errors for this week’s list. Check out these lovely lulus!
Friday (Belated!) Follies #6 – 3 mistakes that make me go “Arghhh”!
The Grammar Cop had a busy week and regrets her tardiness. Get a whiff of these obnoxious goofs!
Friday Follies #3 – 4 mistakes that make me go “Arghhh”!
Okay people, here are this week’s goofs that caught my attention – unfortunately! This Grammar Cop never sleeps!
Friday Follies #2 – 4 mistakes that make me go “Arghhh”!
Once again, I, self-appointed Grammar Cop, call out the media for this week’s goofs. As usual they were not hard to find (the goofs, not the media)!
Friday Follies – 3 mistakes that make me go “Arghhh”!
In which I, self-appointed Grammar Cop, call out the national media for yesterday’s goofs.
Mangled Menus and other Crude offerings, Offensive to My Proofreading Eyes
Let’s start with those dang restaurant menus. How hard is it for them to email or hand over their draft to a proofreader? …or for that matter, to any English-speaking person preferably over six years of age?
Crossed Eyes and Dotted Tees 