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Showing posts with label Incorruptible Grammarian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Incorruptible Grammarian. Show all posts
Monday, September 15, 2014

We are done!

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OK that is IT!! I am solving this problem once and for all. I hereby ban for all time and for all people everywhere the use of the apost...
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Friday, February 21, 2014

That's 'Domine,' to you!

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Sometimes my job leaves me helpless with laughter. Grim, humourless and horrified, but laughter nonetheless... I just had cause to use Goo...
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Wednesday, August 15, 2012

A note on "texting" and the meaning of literacy

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I don't have much to say about The Great Chicken Feed earlier this month. I was generally pleased to see that the average person in the ...
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Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Let me make this absolutely clear...

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It's pronounced "skizm," not "shizum," OK? In English the "sch" combo separates the two consonant sounds...
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Friday, April 13, 2012

It's not that I think you're stupid

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if you don't know how to use an apostrophe, it's just that I think your mother didn't love you, you have no legitimate right to ...
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Monday, November 08, 2010

Irish person fun-fact

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The Irish have a second person plural. I heard it all weekend. They say "Ye" for when they're talking to a group. No kidding. ...
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Wednesday, September 01, 2010

I love the English

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A little while ago, I was assured on Facebook that "access" is so a verb. At least, it's a verb now . The writer, you see, ha...
Monday, February 15, 2010

Let's eat grandma!

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Just joined a facebook group that asserts, " punctuation saves lives ". Yep. Also for some time been a member of the FB group ...
Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Ready-thinky

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AB Chaput, a fine fellow in many ways despite his penchant for eagle feathers at Mass, has some useful things to say about the problems bein...
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Sunday, August 03, 2008

Why yes. Yes it is...

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And could we please add 'dude' to the list? "Dude" is a California surfer word. It is therefore, inherently stupid. Stop s...
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Friday, June 20, 2008

Domestic Peace

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I find there is something ineffably soothing about hanging up washing on the line. It is symbolic, perhaps, of peace and order. If one has t...
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008

New: "Causes I believe in" file

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Causes I believe in: "I judge you when you use bad grammar" facebook group. I do, too.
Thursday, May 15, 2008

Anyway, back to more interesting grammar-related things

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In addition to the wonderful Apostrophe Protection Society , we now have some notable blogging efforts at stopping linguistic and grammatica...
Thursday, March 27, 2008

A sign from God

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I couldn't believe it. I was in the little second hand bookshop in Chester, you know, the one up on the Wall above the Roman bits...the ...
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Monday, March 03, 2008

Fomenting a Fermentation

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Gah! It's "Foment" a rebellion, not "ferment"!! http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/foment">fo·ment ...
Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Incorruptible

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looked up the -ible/-able thing in Fowler today. There's quite a lot on the subject. A very long article, and I'm happy to report th...
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Sunday, January 27, 2008

Grammar: the Framework of Reality

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Hey. It looks like I'm not the only one who has figured out that the abandonment of grammar education has been one of the key tools of t...
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Thursday, January 10, 2008

I love my dictionary

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I brought three different Oxfords with me, the Concise, the Shorter and the Pocket. (And I just went out the other day and bought a new Fowl...
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Sunday, December 02, 2007

The Indispensable Grammarian

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A faithful reader provides the secret: Rule -ible -able If the root is not a complete word, add -ible. aud + ible = audible Examples: visibl...
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Dr. Johnson on the Blogging Phenomenon

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He didn't think much of it. * ~ * ~ * Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance, are the writers w...