March 2009
Dr. Dobb’s cover story
Fwd: Dr. Dobb's magazine front page, originally uploaded by GrammarBlog. Thanks to Jacob for this picture of Dr Dobb's Journal. Apart from the whopping it's/its error in the main story ...
Nivea, your grammar stinks!
Glenda Young brought this Nivea advert to our attention. It gives me two major causes for concern. Who Would OF Thought?!, originally uploaded by cormac70. Firstly, writing 'of' instead of 'have' is ...
Terrerism, Recentment and Wandsworth Borough Police
Last Saturday, I was questioned by PC Colin Swan under Section 44 of the terrorism act for leaning against a shop while listening to my iPod. I do think that if you spend your day aimlessly asking random people if they are planning any terrorism, you should at least be ...
Popular Posts
Recent Posts
- Part of the “furniture”
- Now you’re just being sarcastic
- Beware the parking inspector at Hogwarts
- Hugh selection
- Abuse’s of plural’s and apostrophe’s
- I can’t fault the logic…
- “I’m sorry to nit-pick…”
- Well… I am in a hurry.
- Grave errors
- Death and Tayes
Browse the Archive »
Tags
- AA Gill Abuse in Signage apostrophe Apostrophe Abuse BBC cartoon crisis of faith errors exclamation marks facebook foreign language spelling errors friends fun funny grammar guardian headlines language lyrics marketing copy menus Miscellaneous newspapers pet peeves Photos prepositions Punctuation Pundrity quotation marks randomised caps Rants signs Spelling spelling errors Stephen Fry The List the Times top ten twitter Typography Typos vague video vitriol vocabulary
Talk to us
If you want to tell us your pet peeves, send us examples of grammar abuse you have witnessed or even ask our advice on grammar matters, we'd love to hear from you. Email us on grammarblog@googlemail.com
Ads by Google
Flickr
From More Worser Grammar
Recent Comments
Lee Knapp on Now you’re just being sarcastic
Elevic Oernis on Abuse’s of plural’s and apostrophe’s
Emily on Now you’re just being sarcastic
Watermelon on Beware the parking inspector at Hogwarts
Northern Teacher on Now you’re just being sarcastic