Grammar Giggle – Tails You Lose

I saw this event announcement and it looked interesting, so I kept reading. But when I got to the language “personal behind the scenes tails . . .,” I had to go back and read it again. In this case, they were talking about the stories that shaped this author’s life and career. Here are the Dictionary.com definitions:

Tail – the hindmost part of an animal, especially that forming a distinct, flexible appendage to the back end of its body.

Tale – a narrative that relates the details of some real or imaginary event, incident, or case; story.

Grammar Giggle – Your’re Not The Right Contraction

This ad popped up on my Facebook feed several months ago. I might have actually purchased the shirt except for the egregious error in the contraction “Your’re.” In a contraction, the apostrophe replaces missing letter(s) in a word. The way it is written, the “formal” term would be “Your are,” which is obviously incorrect. I should probably be happy at the attempt to make “You are” a contraction. Be careful with your contractions!

Grammar Giggle – Santa Fe, Arizona, and Phoenix, New Mexico?

My daughter snapped this picture of a globe at an indoor flea market. I think she noticed it right away because she grew up in Arizona and now lives in New Mexico . . . or maybe that should be reversed.

Grammar Giggle – Pastrami Rubben

I saw this sign while waiting for lunch at a local eatery. This might have been a choice for me because I love a Reuben sandwich, but I’m not sure what makes it a Rubben sandwich, so I went with something else.

Grammar Giggle – Louisnana

I saw this on another proofreading page I follow on Facebook, but since it is related to the legal field, I had to use it! I did check online to make sure it was legit, and apparently the error first appeared in a subreddit after a Threads post included the picture of a ceremony installing the newest members of the Louisiana Bar Association and the Louisiana Supreme Court Committee. Whoops! As I say, proofread EVERYTHING! And if you send printing out, please carefully review the proof that they send you for approval before printing.

Grammar Giggle – OcotberFest

I’M BACK! With apologies for the very long delay in posting here, I’ve decided that not having a 9-5 regular schedule is not good for me and causes me to “later” every damn thing. But I’m going to try to get back on schedule with this blog. Thanks for the encouragement!

This was a local ad for an Oktoberfest event to be held on Ocotber 26. Since it’s the largest font on the page, it seems that someone should have noticed that.