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Okay, so this is probably fundamentally old news to just about everyone, and I’d bet my left… upper incisor that it’s been covered ad nauseam before, but I just noticed “Sara Lee’s” slogan on a truck the other day. Like a lot of people (according to the relevant Wikipedia entry), I’d always thought the slogan [...]
So much to vent about, so little time available for venting.
ARGH! I see this all the time, in e-mail messages, in Web articles, and even in the news, and it’s driving me nuts: Can we please figure out the difference between “lose” and “loose?” Lose: A verb meaning to fail to maintain possession (“She lost her purse.”) or to fail to win (“We lost the [...]
Let me begin this post by stating that I do not hold myself up as a paragon of writing perfection. By the same token, I can write well enough that I very rarely use a spell checker or grammar checker. (Sometimes that shows, of course.) That having been said, here’s my gripe: “Writers” who can’t [...]