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There’re?
A colleague has just asked me if it is correct to contract “there are” in the phrase “if there are any questions”. His phonetic instinct was to use “there’s” but he correctly deduced that this was a contraction of “there is” and wouldn’t match the plural object. ...
No Job To Small
1.jpg, originally uploaded by GrammarBlog. Thanks for this contribution go to Caroline, who apparently "hearts" Tom GrammarBlog. How sweet.
David Mitchell is a man after our own hearts
We're big fans of David Mitchell here at GrammarBlog towers so you can imagine the excitement when he released this podcast ranting about many of the topics that have previously been discussed in our blog. I didn't ...
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 ...
Who do you think you are kidding, Mr. Hitler?
Thanks to Oliver Mather for sending in this gem.
The Way I Are – a parody
As you can probably imagine, I'm not a fan of the Timbaland song, "The Way I Are".I'm not usually so much of a stickler that bad grammar in song lyrics bothers me but there are limits. The Way I Are? Come on, that's egregious.I ...
Train’s in vain
Following the haphazard selling off of Britain’s railways, stations and rolling stock, it comes as no surprise that Network Rail has now tendered out its use of English to an unidentified Icelandic investment group. So far we have seen the word ‘tracks’ spelt ‘trax’, and buffet car has become ...
National Grammar Day: Cast your votes now!
Ladies, gentleman and pedants around the world: please vote now for the USA's worst grammar. From the National Grammar Day website, brought to you by SPOGG, the nominations for the worst grammar in the USA are: 1. Willow Park, Tx Note the ...
National Grammar Day
Lovely, lovely Martha Brockenbrough, she of SPOGG fame and author of many wonderful MSN Encarta articles, has bullied the powers that be into holding a national grammar day in the US. Here is one ...
A message from Christina
Christina Aguilera has dropped a sprog. Heat readers are no doubt beside themselves. I, on the other hand, couldn't really claim to give a toss if it wasn't for the grammatical error made by Xtina (does that pseudonym make anyone else get a little bit of sick in ...
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