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Should of, would of, could of…

When I get the time, I’ll write a proper post on this with references and everything. But for now I simply want to voice my displeasure at receiving the following sentence in a work email: I guess...

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Racist grammar Vs new dialects

While perusing SPOGG I found a very interesting post discussing whether or not received pronunciation and standardised grammar are racist. Apparently “Ebonics“, and the more PC term, “African American...

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It’s not easy being a grammar wizard.

I was recently reminded of this cartoon from the hilarious but ever-so-wrong Perry Bible Fellowship (safe for work but avoid if you are easily offended). I’ve previously hinted at my dislike for the...

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The amazing, colossal adventures of Word Girl

This is a great idea. Word Girl teaches kids a new word in each exciting instalment. It’s actually quite funny. I was a bit miffed when the girl on the desk said: You used tonnage wrong. I think she...

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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...

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Loose Morals

If the well-meaning but averagely-educated reader accused this blog of regularly eviscerating relatively innocuous grammatical errors, he or she might not be completely off-mark. Obviously I don’t...

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What the f—?

I was recently surprised to discover that GrammarBlog lost 38 subscribers following the publishing of ‘Thanx‘ (which contains a naughty word meaning poo). I wouldn’t have thought our readers are quite...

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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...

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Grammar abuse in signage – part 9

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } “Brew” Ridge, originally...

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No manners but what a critic

I do enjoy broadsheet restaurant criticism. The best writers use a delightful combination of pretension, rudeness and malevolence. The unspoken concord between writer and reader – i.e. that this is...

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