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Tock-tick, pong-ping, dong-ding?

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on February 2, 2023December 31, 2022

Ever wondered why we say tick-tock, not tock-tick, or ding-dong, not dong-ding; King Kong, not…

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Another Fail from the Daily Mail – these are journalists?

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on November 27, 2022October 24, 2022

When I trained as a journalist there were subeditors and fact-checkers who would never have…

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Swindon Borough Council needs grammar lessons

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on November 14, 2022November 12, 2022

This bench plaque is atrocious.

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Eep!

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on October 22, 2022October 1, 2022
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Bowie in plectra and Latin plural endings

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on September 3, 2022August 13, 2022

Joe Black created this amazing portrait of David Bowie using 8,510 individually placed guitar plectrums.…

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Oh no!

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on April 16, 2022April 10, 2022
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Why English is hard to learn

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on February 28, 2022February 24, 2022
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English…

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on January 16, 2022January 8, 2022

for more like this, here is a great article  

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Exclamation and question commas

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on January 4, 2022December 24, 2021

The exclamation comma and the question comma were designed and patented by Leonard Storch, Haagen…

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Did you know this grammar rule? I didn’t!

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on November 27, 2021October 22, 2021
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