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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...
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Irregardless—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...
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They 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...
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Calling 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...
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For 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...
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Cheap 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....
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What’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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