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Grammar Giggle – But How Do They Pedal?

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A friend sent this one to me. I can kind of understand a typo buried in a news story, but a typo in a headline just makes you look like either you don’t care enough to review your work or you’re dumb.  Don’t be dumb. At least do a quick review of your work.

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Grammar Giggles – The House Has Its Own Trainer!

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This was in my Facebook feed recently. Apparently this company wanted to get the attention of a house in Mesa for its program. Otherwise, it would have addressed it to Mesa RESIDENTS. And, once again, it also uses an apostrophe to make a word plural. It seems that a company paying to promote an ad would make sure it was correct.

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The Case of The Stationary Stationery

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I was in a CVS drugstore recently looking for something searching the aisle markers trying to find what we needed when this gem caught my eye:

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I was taught a long time ago that when you’re talking about products to help you write a lEtter, use the stationEry with an “E.” That tip still holds true. StationAry means to stay in one place unmoving. Unfortunately for CVS they obviously know better because you can see part of an even bigger sign on the wall (but I took another picture to make it easier for you!):

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You’ll note that they both have the same Spanish word, so they were attempting to show us where the stationery was located. At least the stationery is stationary!

P.S. – don’t do a Google search for a definition for stationAry, because this will come up:

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I’m hoping that is only so they can catch people who don’t know the difference, but I’m scared that that is a very big hope!

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Grammar Giggle – Headings

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We received this pleading in our office recently. This is a perfect example of settings in Microsoft Word’s spell check making a huge difference. Check your settings to see if “Ignore Words in UPPERCASE” is checked and uncheck it right now! Headings, titles of pleadings, and other documents include lots of uppercase words and if you’re ignoring them, there could be errors you will miss. At least this person got it right once.

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Grammar Giggle – Licensed Under The Arizona Revised Statues

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I swear I’ve looked at this license on my nail tech’s desk a hundred times, but just last weekend I finally saw IT. The mistake that I make on occasion, but in proofreading, I find it and make the correction. I do see it quite a bit because it is not something spell check would catch. Apparently, the State of Arizona spell checker didn’t catch it either. And just as an aside, I do not consider this a “fraudulent” purpose–it is an educational purpose. But I do wonder what the Arizona Revised Statues look like. What part of the statue was revised? What are they modeled after? Where are they located? What do you think an Arizona Revised Statue would look like?

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