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Through and Thru
Is anyone else really sick of seeing the word 'Thru'? Of all the various inane marketing spellings it's the one that winds me up the most. I'm not ...
Me, myself and I
A reader has emailed in.Hi,One of my biggest pet peeves is when people on Facebook or Myspace will put captions on their photos reading "John, Bill, and I" or "Mark and I at the beach". Shouldn't it be "John, Bill, and me"? You wouldn't show a picture to ...
Open till midnight
Open till midnight, originally uploaded by scriptingnews. This really bugs me. ...
My biggest "US English" peeve.
I'm not going to have an anti-American rant. I realise that the US is poorly represented in the world grammar league (how I wish that existed) due to the misfortune of having a leader who seems to have missed out on his natural calling of becoming a P.E. teacher.In ...
President Bush: "Childrens do learn".
I think there should be some sort of test before you get hold of the nuclear button. I've had cleverer foot fungi.He went to Yale? Honestly?
That is so random!
Am I going mad? Has there been a global announcement that I have missed regarding a change in meaning of the word 'random'? Why do I seem to be the only one who minds when people describe events as "random" when they are, in fact, anything but random?This ...
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