December 2008
Grown Ups’
Live from Old York, it's Sunday night and this is the second blog post brought to you via the wonders of mobile technology. We are on the train back to Newcastle now, following an enthusiastic afternoon fuelled by local bitter, Sailor Jerry's rum and ginger beer. We were literally ...
URL of Sandwich’s
Tom, Dan, Paddy and I are out in York on a drinking session. As you can probably imagine, the pedantry is rampant. This error-strewn menu is probably not the last post of the day.
Sparkel Partys
This was added to our Flickr group by the incomparably vigilant Bob the Bolder. Girls, be glamours!, originally uploaded by bob the bolder. It's a cracking find from ...
Think before you ink
Indelible spelling and grammar errors always make me laugh. We've seen previous examples on headstones and plaques and this got me thinking. What's the worst possible situation for poor spelling and grammar?
Revel revel, your copy’s a mess.
New reader Luke has dropped us an email. "I've spotted at least three errors on the new share size packets of Revels with the new flavour. I notice a missing period, teeth-grinding misuse of the word 'lose' and the word 'limited' misspelled.Needless to say, an email to Mars' customer service department ...
Candian ham
Browsing Newcastle's reliably frowzy Evening Chronicle website, I was amused and appalled to find this absolute horror show. Not only is the story offensively tenuous (offenuous, if you will), but it is ridden with the kind ...
Room With A Few
The words 'one' and 'none' often cause grammatical chaos. Geoff from Seattle writes: I wonder how to phrase this: 'by doing this chore before you go to bed you will have one fewer things to worry about in the morning'. I can think of three ways to do 'one fewer ...
Setting the adjenda
Thanks to Allison for sending in this screengrab of an email she received from Staples stationers. Setting the adjenda, originally uploaded by GrammarBlog. Maybe the 'adjenda' for the next marketing department meeting ...
Career Opportunities
Digg alerted me to this post from the frequently amusing Graphjam blog. It made me chuckle anyway.
Awfullest English ever
We've had a number of complaints about Apple's recent 'funnest' campaign. GrammarGirl has, with characteristic generosity of spirit, posted quite comprehensively on how it can be acceptable. Bless her, she's nice like that. Whilst I would ...
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