AOL’s “You’ve got mail!”—let’s change it . . .
I recently found the comment below on a web site that promotes proper use of the English language. I visited both sites, the one from whence the comment came as well as the one that received it. As do...
View ArticleIrregardless—right, or wrong?
Wrong. Warning: Read this posting at your own peril. It’s a grammar lesson, the first of many to come, a veritable onslaught of similar postings and a site to which viewers will quickly become...
View ArticleThey invited you and I to the party. Right or wrong?
Wrong. The sentence should read They invited you and me, or They invited me and you—either is correct. A complete sentence consists of a subject, a verb and an object (quite often the object is unseen...
View ArticleCalling all teachers—don’t correct in red!
I’ll begin this posting by referring viewers to an outstanding blog, one recommended by a friend in Wales. Click here for Sentence First, An Irishman’s blog about the English language. If you have a...
View ArticleFor those that like the taste of spam . . .
The purpose of this posting is to give my viewers a look at some spam that should be recognized with an Oscar for the best poorly written commercial essay. It is the purest gobbledygook that I have...
View ArticleCheap tomatoes—si, o no?
This posting is one of an e-mail I received recently from a family member. A quick check of http://www.snopes.com/politics/immigration/tomatoes.asp shows that the truth of the letter is undetermined....
View ArticleWhat’s in a name? The N-word by any other name would mean the same
The following comment was made by a fellow blogger somewhere in the British isles. Click here to read the post that prompted his comment. Submitted on 2011/03/06 at 9:06 pm...
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