Tag: grammar
- 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 [...]
- 8th January 2010
Is your writing musical and grammatical?
What influenced your writing? I mean, really influenced it? I’m not talking here about the writers that helped to shape your prose. That’s an easy enough list to rattle off. Mine would put these folks into pole position: Evelyn Waugh, Max Beerbohm, Muriel Spark, P.G. Wodehouse, Richmal Crompton – even the artist J.A.M. Whistler (really [...]
- 5th January 2010
Guerilla grammarians win book deal
Am I alone in finding this picture heart warming? I thought not. Meet Benjamin Herson who, with pal Jeff Deck, spent much of 2008 correcting errors on signs and billboards across the USA – and then blogged about it. During their Reign of Error, no grocer’s apostrophe was safe. Good news you might think. Nice [...]
- 22nd August 2009
The top 10 political spelling and grammar failures
I t’s easy enough to make a spelling mistake or grammatical error, especially if you’ve been taught by people who wouldn’t know an adverb if it cheerfully slapped them round the chops with a wet haddock; but, if you’re a politician, it’s best not to do it in public. Sadly, politicians aren’t always the brightest [...]
