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If you have a coat, you most likely wear it some days, forget it in the car on others and leave it at home the rest of the time.
Sure, it might seem nice to be consistent and wear it every day or to never wear it at all, but it’s just not practical.
That coat is just like the famous Oxford Comma.
Continue reading “The Oxford Comma: Preventing chaos or a waste of space?”
If you’ve ever felt disgruntled, have you also felt gruntled?
It turns out that you probably have.
“Gruntle,” much to my gruntlement, is actually a word that means, “to put in a good humor,” according to the Merriam Webster Dictionary and “happy or contented,” according to Dictionary.com.
Looking around the internet thing, there are several websites that attempt to explain the long history of gruntled and disgruntled, but frankly I can’t follow along without getting distracted. But if I could follow along, would that mean I was tracted? Continue reading “The disconnect over dis: It’s great to be gruntled, but bad to be cussed”
If a meeting is “pushed back” or “moved up” in time, what exactly does that mean?
I have had this conversation with several people recently who did not understand what I meant when I used these phrases.
Normally, I would just automatically assume that they were wrong and I was correct, but this time I thought I should take their opinions into consideration and study the issue further before deciding they are wrong.
Continue reading “The confusion over events being ‘pushed back’ or ‘moved up’ and a few solutions”
The English language is filled with some pretty interesting letters, as well as some that just don’t make the cut. Everyone has their own favorite, and countless relationships have been ruined over the debates between vowels and consonants (a word that I found surprisingly hard to spell just now).
In order to ease the debate and help bring some stability to this volatile issue (which is not just the most-used letter), our staff has compiled the Top Five Letters in the English Language. Continue reading “Top Five Letters in the English Language”
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