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!