June 2007
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Since television news got its own back on Chris Morris by becoming a parody of his parodies, I don’t expect much from it. Indeed, I watch ITV news as it is the best comedy on ‘the box’ in this age of the insanely unfunny ‘Catherine Tate Show’ and all ...
Getting on my goat
Miss Q from McScotchville writes:'Dear GrammarBloggers,In purchasing cheese derived from the milk of a goat, I want to make sure I buy the most ideologically sound brand. I have seen "goats cheese", "goat's cheese" and "goats' cheese" in my local middle-class deli.Is it the ...
Lack of grammatical knowledge is a sackable offence.
An email that passed through my inbox yesterday (all names and incriminating nouns have been changed):Afternoon All,Customer Service - thank-you all for attending the Microsoft Training, everyone has now completed and I have thanked Chris for providing the tours on your behalf.Hopefully you all ...
Stephen Fry can’t let a grammar error go uncorrected
Stephen Fry corrects Alan Davies and explains why, as far as grammar is concerned, "one" is the same as "none".We all know why Stephen picks on Alan so much; it's because of actual and genuine ...
Stephen Fry can’t let a grammar error go uncorrected
Stephen Fry corrects Alan Davies and explains why, as far as grammar is concerned, "one" is the same as "none".We all know why Stephen picks on Alan so much; it's because of ...
Dislocated English
I had the misfortune (or stupidity, your call) to dislocate my shoulder over the weekend. I took the opportunity to peruse the walls of Newcastle General Hospital's A&E Waiting Room. All patients in A&E are given a category numbered one to four; category one is for patients with life threatening ...
Nice colon, Mr. Gill.
This week in his Times column, A.A. Gill, a man for whom a place at the GrammarBlog table is always set, proved that a well used colon is a beautiful thing.I started with a cup of coffee and a muffin. The coffee was made by someone I heard ...
Automated grammar
It really bugs me that Blogger unashamedly tells me that a post has "1 comments". It seems grammar is a problem for application programmers; I suspect this is for two main reasons.Grammar doesn't follow easily measurable logic.Application developers' primary language is usually either php or binary as opposed to ...
French Letters
After opting to take the Sunday Herald yesterday, I was delighted to find a restaurant review chiding an upmarket eatery for foreign language spelling abuse (You Gimme Hope, Joanna).This is a double-pronged sin. The restaurant, in their smattered employment of French, have been deliberately abstruse so ...
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