Grammar Giggle – Side Load

My daughter sent me another of her local Facebook Marketplace posts. In all fairness, I understand that the front is one of the sides and when you look up “side load washing machine,” a whole page of things named “front load washing machines” shows up, but this type of washer is normally called a “front load.”

Grammar Giggle – Chandler

My daughter sent this to me from her local Facebook Marketplace and it took me a minute to figure it out. I had trouble because we have a city here named “Chandler,” so that word didn’t trigger anything until I looked at what they were selling. It should be “chandelier,” so there are a few letters missing. And then I saw the name of the city. There was no winning with this ad.

Grammar Giggle – Corn Teen

A friend sent this to me and while I assume it was taken from another someplace on the internet, I’m using it anyway. If you read ANYTHING about the pandemic, you should know how to spell “quarantine.” And if you don’t know, you probably have access to a dictionary on your phone, so use that.

Grammar Giggle – More Healthier

A friend was recently shopping online for a bread machine when she came upon this description. There are so many issues with this information.

  • “More healthier” is not correct. It should just be “Healthier.” Healthier already says it is more healthy than not healthy.
  • “More evenly heated” does not need the “More” capitalized. There is a comma–not a period–after the incorrect “healthier,” so the next word (unless it is a proper noun) should not be capitalized.
  • “the bread tastes better and more fragrant” makes me wonder how you can taste “fragrant.” To be completely correct, this line should have said: “the bread tastes better, and is more fragrant.” Note what would be the Oxford comma as well after “better.”

The one thing going for them is that everything is at least spelled correctly.