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Grammar Giggle – I Guess The Judge Dismissing The Case Is the Demise Of The Case, Right?

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A friend sent these to me. The first is what came in her email and the second is the online–and CORRECTED–version. I guess I’m happy it was corrected, but it should not have happened in the first place.

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Grammar Giggle – Who Knows Who’s Goal Was Met

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The flyer for a recent fundraising event for one of my grandsons caught my eye, so I checked out the website. All I can say is that they were consistent–it was wrong, but it was wrong in both places. The correct word is “whose.” The word “who’s” is a contraction for “who is” which would not be correct in the sentence.

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Grammar Giggle – Nice Og!

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I was behind this car recently and the magnet caught my eye. With apologies for the dirty windshield (and I was stopped when I took the picture), here we go. When you are the previous generation, you are the “grand.” This holds true for grandson, granddaughter, grandchild, and granddog. The Urban Dictionary defines a GRANDDOG as:

The adorable puppy your son or daughter just adopted in lieu of a human baby… in other words, as close to grandkids as you’re going to get for now.

Check out this adorable sweater I got for my granddog! I’m taking it to him when I visit my son next month.

Thus, the “grandogs” in my picture are apparently “ogs” that this person’s child owns because if it were “dogs,” the magnet would say “I love my granddogs.”

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Grammar Giggle – You Earned The Title, At Least Spell It Right!

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This was on a letter that we received in our office recently. For some reason, people don’t feel the need to proof inside addresses, signature blocks, and pleading party and service information. That information is important, particularly when you misspell your own title in what should be some kind of macro or automatic fill so that it looks the same every time. The same is even more true for email, since that is what we use most. Go and check your signature block right now to make sure it is correct and if you had to change something, let me know.

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Grammar Giggles – So Nice Of News Stations To Keep Me In Material

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I keep thinking that if I ever want to change my line of work, all of my local news stations could sure use someone to type their screen verbiage. A friend sent me this one and I only saw the errant apostrophe until I was working with the picture here and saw the hot mess of an attempt at the second use of the word “closing.” The apostrophe in “it’s” is only used as a contraction of “it is” and not to signify possession by “it” of anything– that would simply be “its” as in “closing its doors.” And you spelled “closing” correctly once, what the heck happened to the second one? In this case, two strikes and you’re out!

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