Thanks, Mitch! I’m not so great at proff-reeding, either….
(And a kitten dies every time someone uses “there” for “their.”)
“My spelling is Wobbly. It’s good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.” ~A.A. Milne
“A synonym is a word you use when you can’t spell the other one.” ~Baltasar Gracián
“The greater part of the world’s troubles are due to questions of grammar.” ~Michel de Montaigne
“And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before–and thus was the Empire forged.” ~Douglas Adams
“This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.” ~Winston S. Churchill
“Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean ‘More people died,’ don’t say, ‘Mortality rose.’” ~C.S. Lewis
“The past is always tense, the future perfect.” ~Zadie Smith
“’Punctuation is…
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I had a Spanish teacher once who, when a student would mess up would say: “You put the emPHAsis on the wrong SyLLAble.” That has nothing to do with grammar, but this post made me remember that.
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Great quotables. You talk real good!
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Hahaha! I didn’t write, one of my bloggish buddies did. You quote in email was hilarious! I laughed until I had tears in my eyes!
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