Archive for Grammar
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Double garden path
Walking into bars
If the minstrel boy to the war had gone
A few weeks back, I re-listened to the Clancy Brothers' rendition of “The Minstrel Boy,” and it's been running through my head intermittently ever since. Stirring and patriotic in an...
Many of those two
The sort of phrasing problem that comes up when you try to present statistics in terms of small numbers: More people are using condoms, for example, but they still play...
Happy National Grammar Day!
It's National Grammar Day! Apparently created by the folks who brought us the Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar (SPOGG). The National Grammar Day site initially looked annoyingly prescriptivist...