November 2007
The Grerat Typo Inciden
The Grerat Typo Inciden, originally uploaded by Gez D. ...
The Shame.
Our pals at The Engine Room have found a fun little gizmo that works out the reading level required for any blog on the interwebs. The Engine Room was designated a genius level blog. "Great," I thought, "with the A.A Gill quote in the ...
No manners but what a critic
I do enjoy broadsheet restaurant criticism.The best writers use a delightful combination of pretension, rudeness and malevolence. The unspoken concord between writer and reader - i.e. that this is just food and hence reviewing it is faintly ridiculous - provides the opportunity for gleeful childishness and linguistic showboating. GrammarBlog ...
For God’s sake, wash it!
Dirty Dicks in this photo; a glazed ass in the last Who says GrammarBlog is puerile?Missing apostrophes aren't usually ...
Grammar abuse in signage – part 10
I'm not sure what's more entertaining: the apostrophe abuse or the crop of the photo.
You have no soul
Found on my current favourite blog, Passive Aggressive Notes, this example of a comma splice altering the meaning of a sentence is a lesson to all who use commas like confetti....
Scotch Gents This Way
Ignoring the apostrophe abuse, left is the new down in Edinburgh.
An ‘Xmas’ appeal from GrammarBlog
As Christmas approaches and companies feverishly push their wares on increasingly maniacal consumers, there is an inevitable rash of hastily produced temporary signs and banners. Many of these will undoubtedly contain a plethora of errors for us all to chortle at. Those of you who regularly read this blog will ...
I predict a pint
My new mobile phone is really irritating me at the moment.It isn’t causing me to itch uncontrollably or anything like that; it’s just generally leaving my nut more done in than a pistachio that has been cracked open by a battering ram, rolled over by a tank, and ...
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