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Apostrophe Catastrophe

July 10, 2009

This tirade has been a long time comin’.  But I just can’t take it anymore. Will someone please tell me why most people can’t commit the most basic principles of apostrophe use to memory? Why, when it is actually very simple: In English [the apostrophe] has two main functions: it marks omissions, and it assists [...]

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Couture Correction

June 8, 2009

I read a great piece in The Daily Telegraph on Sunday, June 7, 2009 that I really wanted to share here. But as I am discovering, not only is Internet service here woefully behind, so is Web design. I’ve never encountered so many slow sites, horribly arranged sites, sites with text too small (and not [...]

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Oddities, Odds and Ends, and Oddments

June 2, 2009

While heading into the local grocery store I spotted the following:   This charity donation bin is mostly unremarkable except for the one thing I found odd: you can use it for the donation of oddments. Oddments? Huh? Well, turns out “oddments” is a legitimate term to describe what I think most of us would [...]

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Linguistic Lust: in flagrante delicto

March 14, 2008

Words and expressions that excite the English major in me… In flagrante delicto or sometimes simply in flagrante (Latin: “while [the crime] is blazing”) is a legal term used to indicate that a criminal has been caught in the act of committing an offense…the Latin term has come to be used far more often as [...]

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