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Do You Really Care?
How many times have you heard someone say I could care less? For every time you’ve heard it, have you wondered why the person saying it COULD care less about something he seemingly doesn’t… more →
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Do You Really Care?
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wrote 5 months ago: How many times have you heard someone say I could care less? For every time you’ve heard it, h … more →
Why are big brands like Starbucks and Pepsico so darn sloppy?
wrote 7 months ago: So I’ll start off by admitting that I’m in a bit of a funk today. I don’t have much of an explanatio … more →
Cancel One L
wrote 8 months ago: Remember that spelling rule you learned in elementary school about doubling the final consonant befo … more →
Oh Brother, Can't We Just Use the @!&* Telephone?
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wrote 9 months ago: The other day, I heard a certain Alaska governor use the word telephonically to describe making a te … more →
Did anyone proof BMW's marketing slogan?
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wrote 9 months ago: BMW should learn a lesson from Turner Broadcasting’s recent gaffe. Two month’s ago, I bl … more →
Don't Get Disorientated Over This One
wrote 9 months ago: Last week, a reader asked that I talk about the words orient and orientate and their, ummmm, evoluti … more →
Meantime, the Controversy Rages
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wrote 9 months ago: Fine, it’s not a major controversy, but I figured I would need a sensationalistic headline in … more →
Nip it WHERE????
wrote 10 months ago: No matter how many times you’ve said it—and you know who you are—nip it in the but … more →
THAT'S Incredible; I'M Incredulous.
wrote 10 months ago: I’ve heard the word incredulous attributed to situations, as in That’s an incredulous st … more →
Let's Dive Right In
wrote 10 months ago: Ok, here’s the deal. Dive is a regular verb, and a regular verb makes its past tense form by a … more →
Subordinating Conjunctions
wrote 10 months ago: While coordinating conjunctions (and, but, for, nor, or, so, yet), which connect clauses of equal im … more →
Mmmmmm, Probly (Probably)
wrote 10 months ago: While this is not a terribly common written error—-although I have at times seen it spelled th … more →
Bring Me Some Water
wrote 11 months ago: Bring and take are easily confused because their meanings are so similar, but the difference is in t … more →
Waiting for You, Waiting on Table #3
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wrote 11 months ago: There’s a song whose lyrics include Must I always be waiting on you and I can’t always be waiting on … more →
Turner Broadcasting needs a grammar lesson
wrote 11 months ago: I admit I’m no English grammar expert, so perhaps I’m speaking out of turn here. But I b … more →
We the People...
wrote 11 months ago: I’ve already written about general pronoun choice, but the we/us dilemma is worth tackling separatel … more →
Can't Help But Cringe at This Construction
wrote 11 months ago: Try to avoid the can’t help but construction. While it has been around for a while, most grammarians … more →
Complement/Compliment
wrote 11 months ago: As a verb, to complement is to complete or supplement. The wine complemented the meal. As a noun, co … more →
Is It Amount, or Is It Number?
wrote 11 months ago: The number of times that I’ve seen these words confused is more than I can count—and that’s ac … more →
