Put grammar in it’s place!
As a husband, Eliot’s been called a lot of things, but never a credit card.
Eliot has spent his adult career chronicling Florida’s weirdness. Three young teens mugging the Easter Bunny? That’s Florida. A headline writer butchering spelling of the town of Naples, Florida? That’s a new one.
But wait! Theres more!
This writer knew not to use the apostrophe. But he/she made another goof. Georgia saw its lead evaporate. The bulldogs saw their lead evaporate. Pick one.
“Every residents” would be “every resident.” And the first two sentences need periods at the end. Also, “why” are “these lines” in “quote marks?”
We’ve addressed this many times, going way back to April 2021. “Embattled” means girded for battle. The word you want is “beleaguered.”
We spoke in August 2024 about how “temporary” usually is redundant.
The “Horribly Wrong” team acknowledges that expecting smartphone apps — many of them international — to follow basic rules of English grammar and honesty is like expecting you actually win money on them. We’re going to challenge the statement that, of the 1-billion-plus earthlings over the age of 60, nearly eight in nine use this app!
The world contains numerous heiresses.
And we go to the video archives for Segment 81: The Grammar Police Meet The Gazpacho Police. https://youtu.be/IeHRjiz6V5U?si=2K2YwkWwxjnC16zC
Readers: "Something Went Horribly Wrong" features samples of bad writing we see nearly every day. You can participate! Be our duly deputized “grammar police.” Your motto: “To protect and correct.” Send in your photos of store signs, street signs, menus, TV news graphics, newspaper headlines, tweets, and so on. It doesn’t have to be a grammatical error. It can be just what we call “cowardly writing.” Include your name and home town so we can credit you properly. You're free to add a comment, although we reserve the right to edit or omit. Now get out there! Send to Eliot@eliotkleinberg.com
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