Mocking Poor Grammar
Since 2007
A noun that is formed from a verb and which describes an action. In English it ends in -ing, eg 'the baking of bread' and 'Smoking damages your health'.
Submitted via a direct Twitter message by Jeremy, who comments:
I thought you might like this one; by far the worst apostrophe abuse I have ever seen.
I think this is made worse by the fact the “agent of the new” has neglected to use apostrophes to acknowledge the missing letters either side of the ‘n’.
Also, what the hell does “sweet and things” mean?
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