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Oxymorons

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on May 29, 2024April 21, 2024
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Is it just me?

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on May 14, 2024March 28, 2024

That must have been a hard delivery…

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Common spelling and grammar errors found on the internet

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on February 14, 2024January 1, 2024

It’s the teacher/proofreader in me I guess but these are the most common errors I…

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Word humour

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on January 28, 2024December 13, 2023
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I can’t say I feel this

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on January 7, 2024January 7, 2024

If egregious grammar errors appear in a television show, novel, or newspaper article it does…

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What is ‘The Oxford Comma’

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on January 5, 2024November 18, 2023

The ‘Oxford comma’ is an optional comma before the word ‘and’ at the end of…

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Grammar jokes

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on July 22, 2023July 13, 2023
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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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Dead metaphors

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on January 2, 2023October 25, 2023

I didn’t realise that when when a metaphor stops needing its imagery to be understood,…

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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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