August 2007
Spell Checker Poem
Via Digg I found a funny poem by a guy called Dean Hunt about the dangers of relying too much on one's spell checker.Eye halve a spelling chequerIt came with my pea seaIt plainly marques four my revueMiss steaks eye kin knot ...
Unbelievable, Richard
There's no argument over the fact that Andy Gray is the best football pundit on British television.Tonight, on Sky Sports' peerless The Last Word, he surpassed himself ...
Grammar Abuse in Signage – Part 5
Sandwiche's, originally uploaded by iandavid. Why, oh why, oh why would ...
Recommended Reading, Part 1
Forget Eats, Shoots and Leaves; those of you looking for a more highbrow grammar-based paperback would do well to consider Bill Bryson's splendid Troublesome Words.This really is excellent stuff. It covers some great topics (everything from the usage of 'who' and 'whom', to common literary misquotations), often ...
It’s not easy being a grammar wizard.
I was recently reminded of this cartoon from the hilarious but ever-so-wrong Perry Bible Fellowship (safe for work but avoid if you are easily offended)....
It’s not easy being a grammar wizard.
I was recently reminded of this cartoon from the hilarious but ever-so-wrong Perry Bible Fellowship (safe for work but avoid if you are easily offended)....
A Positive Connection?
I hate it when instructions aren't clear. If a product manufacturer or a service provider has a limited number of words with which to instruct a customer, those words should be chosen carefully. Unlike this example from a London underground ticket machine....
Jeff gets grammatical
Check out Jeff Jarvis, he of 'Dell Hell' fame, chastising the Times for a redundant word. They say that each page will have “somewhat fewer words,” which is really bad editing; there are either fewer words or there aren’t; “somewhat” is meaningless and a grammatical waste of ...
OK film, crap punctuation.
British comedy at it's bestI watched this DVD at the weekend and my girlfriend spotted the rogue apostrophe on the cover (I was a little hungover or else I would have ...
New friends and new enemies.
GrammarBlog has been up and running for a few months now and we're having lots of fun. We are all first time bloggers so we spent a couple of months finding our feet, then Tom implemented the lovely design and we haven't looked back since.Apparently blogging is about more ...
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