Wednesday 3 September 2008

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I'm a bit of a stickler for good grammar, being a good Grammar School girl and all. I just received this link (thanks Toby) and thought I'd share my grammatical gripes.

20 examples of grammatical misuse

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1 comment:

Andrew said...

hi Bowerbird, nice blog. Just found it through our shared appreciation of Lost in Translation.

I like that link you've put up,my personal peeves are when people use 'seminal' to mean 'important' Mostly in sports-broadcasting. And 'enormity' to mean 'enormous' or 'enormousness'. That has become a widely-used and accepted term now, but it originally meant 'wickedness'.