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5 Microlog entries tagged with ‘grammar’

Stealth Mountain’s favourites
Stealth Mountain is a Twitter bot that alerts other users who type ‘sneak peak’ when they meant ‘sneak peek’. The vitriol it gets in response has to be seen to be believed. Interesting   ·

Don’t Call Me Limey, Yank! Limey, Don’t Call Me Yank!
MeFi’s linguistics nerds have a field day. Interesting   ·

Muphry’s Law
‘If you write anything criticising editing or proofreading, there will be a fault in what you have written.’ Guilty. Arts & Culture   ·

Boing Boing post sparks grammar dispute
See if you can spot the error that Andy and Brad have made. Arts & Culture   ·

Grocer’s Apostrophe on Flickr
Id est, grammatical mistakes in public signage. Some are less annoying than others, such as the ones that subscribe to the ‘if in doubt, leave it out’ philosophy; I mean, you can always add in your own apostrophe if you’re desperate enough [c/o del.icio.us/torrez]. Arts & Culture   ·

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