Tag: grammar
- 20th September 2011
Apostrophe catastrophe: My Pant’s
My Pant’s, Paris. If you use a foreign language, please employ a native-speaking copywriter before innocent punctuation gets hurt.
- 17th April 2010
Brand spells disaster: Leffe Blonde
Buy a bottle of Leffe Blond(e)… Then look at the back label. This one…
- 27th January 2010
“That” can refer to people
A grammatical point that’s cropped up a couple of times this week. Can ‘that’ be used in place of ‘who’? Copy Editor Nick Howard has strong feelings on the point. He goes as far as insisting that “‘That’ does not refer to people”. I disagree. I think it can do. Especially if you want to [...]
- 23rd January 2010
Written English: the top 10 modern mistakes
If you’ve dropped by here before, you’ll know that I don’t mind monkeying around with the so-called ‘rules’ of language. When I want to start a sentence with ‘and’ or ‘but’ or any other conjunction, then I will. And often. But only if it works for the reader. Good, lively prose is far more desirable [...]
- 20th January 2010
A word out of place may see the strippers go free
I vowed not to blog today – I’ve too much else to fit in – but this story was too good not to share. According to the New York Post, porn star Alexia Moore and topless dancer Falynn Rodriguez may evade prostitution charges because of a legal – ahem – cock up. When prosecutors drew [...]
