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‘Tis the season to make new enemies
Ever wondered what it would look like if you filled a blunderbuss with apostrophes and fired it at a web page?Take a look at MarloDee Design's and wonder no more....
As I Like’s It
More gastronomic & linguistic innovation from As You Like It.Apologies for the poor quality photo; I must have been shaking with contempt when I noticed that their latest menu referred to "Gateaux's ...
Putting Middlesborough on the Map
Fans of GrammarBlog (stop laughing at the back) will be familiar with the ubiquitous misspelling of ‘Middlesbrough’.This is a particularly brilliant example, found today on Premier Travel Inn’s website:...
Shoddy Burchill worse than Ron Burgundy
Using a well-worn expression incongruously or erroneously is a linguistic crime born of ignorance.Perhaps I'm naive, but I didn't expect to find it committed by a seasoned writer in this week's Observer. In an interview about what she "knows about men", Julie Burchill (whose name now graces our ...
New friends and new enemies.
GrammarBlog has been up and running for a few months now and we're having lots of fun. We are all first time bloggers so we spent a couple of months finding our feet, then Tom implemented the lovely design and we haven't looked back since.Apparently blogging is about more ...
Get Involved
Sometimes our quest to protect grammar requires action, not words. Which is satisfyingly ironic I suppose.Restaurant menus are not massively verbose tomes. Nor – as the food-snobs among you are doubtless aware – should they ever be. Whilst dining recently in the comfortable but contrived surroundings of Newcastle ...
Warning: bad grammar may cause increased levels of honesty
Words are important. Words are powerful. Choose the wrong words and although you are trying to convey one particular meaning, you may inadvertently convey another. This is especially true and damaging when considering a sales pitch. With a sales pitch you are trying to persuade people to part with ...
French Letters
After opting to take the Sunday Herald yesterday, I was delighted to find a restaurant review chiding an upmarket eatery for foreign language spelling abuse (You Gimme Hope, Joanna).This is a double-pronged sin. The restaurant, in their smattered employment of French, have been deliberately abstruse so ...
When tortoise owners go bad
I was recently given an anonymous tip off to this website. There I found the most abhorrent apostrophe abuse I have ever encountered. I'm serious, it made me dry heave. The worst example?Remember you should alway's bring your tortoise indoors at nightThat's a new one.www.tortoisecentre.co.uk is ...
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