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The Semicolon

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on September 4, 2025August 18, 2025

  So many people are afraid of the semicolon. I don’t use it as often…

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Funny Signs

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  • Posted on May 9, 2025June 6, 2025

    In a Copenhagen airline ticket office: We take your bags and send them…

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BC/AD and BCE/CE – what is the difference and how do I write it?

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on February 4, 2025June 3, 2025

I have been asked this several times by students recently. BC (Before Christ) and AD…

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Instead of…

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on February 2, 2025January 27, 2025

I sometimes use lists like this when teaching writing. Sometimes people feel that more words…

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Date formats

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on January 19, 2024December 8, 2023

I grew up with day-month-year, but Sweden uses year-day-month. Read more here

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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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Interesting

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on May 21, 2023May 8, 2023

I have seen this with other letters as well, even e, which is a very common letter.…

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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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Those poor parakeets!

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on July 23, 2022July 13, 2022

A lovely fail from the Daily Mail

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Don’t they check things anymore?

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  • Posted on May 1, 2018April 29, 2018
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