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Grammar Giggle – Marry Christmas

By [email protected] | December 25, 2017 - 8:48 AM |December 25, 2017 grammar giggles, legal assistant, legal proofreading, legal secretary, misspellings, paralegal, proofreading

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My niece sent me this one. Wishing you all a very Merry (and grammatically correct) Christmas!

Grammar Giggle – Priot, Prio . . ., Before

By [email protected] | December 22, 2017 - 6:10 AM |December 26, 2017 grammar giggles, legal assistant, legal proofreading, legal secretary, misspellings, paralegal, proofreading

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A friend sent me this picture she snapped on the freeway in Phoenix recently. I’m not sure exactly what they were trying to say here, but am assuming it was “prior.” But it is not.

Road sign

Replay Thursday

By [email protected] | December 21, 2017 - 6:10 AM |December 20, 2017 legal assistant, legal proofreading, legal secretary, paralegal, proofreading

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Thursday Replay It’s time for a review of recent blog posts just in case you’ve missed them. We call this Replay Thursday. Here are posts from Proof That proofreading blog and 60 Is The New 60 blog during the past week.

Grammar Giggle – Beauty Shop Deels

Confusing Words of the Week

Ask PTB – Initial Caps

Ask PTB – Initial Caps

By [email protected] | December 20, 2017 - 6:10 AM |December 17, 2017 capitalization, legal assistant, legal proofreading, legal secretary, paralegal, proofreading

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Ask PTB A reader asked PTB “In the phrase ‘found guilty of Aggravated Sexual Abuse of a Child’ should ‘Aggravated Sexual Abuse of a Child’ use all initial caps?”

While my first instinct was that since it is the name of a criminal act under the law, it would be capitalized, when I checked on the criminal statutes of various states, they are not capitalized. I would treat it exactly as it is treated in the statute and not capitalize any of those words.

Confusing Words of the Week

By [email protected] | December 19, 2017 - 6:10 AM |December 17, 2017 grammar, legal assistant, legal proofreading, legal secretary, paralegal, proofreading, Words of the Week

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It’s time for “Confusing Words of the Week” where I take a set of two or three words that get confused and give you definitions and try to give you a memory trick to help you remember when to use which word. If you have words that confuse you, use the Ask PTB tab on the website or send an email to [email protected] and they may appear here soon!

This week’s words are:

flack – (n.) one who provides publicity; (v.) to provide publicity

The press agent was called a flack.

flak – literally, debris from exploding antiaircraft shells; criticism

He took a lot of flak for his political stance.

Memory Tips:

I think I would remember that since flack deals with publicity, and publicity reminds me of paparazzi, which is like a flock of birds pecking at a celebrity, that I would change one letter in flock to make it flack.

Since flak isn’t dealing with publicity, it isn’t related to a flock, so doesn’t need the c.

Grammar Giggle – Beauty Shop Deels

By [email protected] | December 18, 2017 - 6:10 AM |December 17, 2017 grammar giggles, legal assistant, legal proofreading, legal secretary, misspellings, paralegal, proofreading

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A friend snapped this picture and sent it to me. I realize that English is probably not the owner’s first language, but when you are advertising in English, someone should make sure things are correct.

Hair specials

Grammar Giggle – Menus

By [email protected] | December 11, 2017 - 6:10 AM |December 10, 2017 grammar giggles, legal assistant, legal proofreading, legal secretary, misspellings, paralegal, proofreading

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I went to lunch recently and saw this menu. While the proper version is “house-made,” which means something is prepared in the establishment in which it is sold, while “homemade” is something made in a home. In other words, it appears three different ways–including the correct way–all on one page. And the original error I found was “quinoa” misspelled one line below where it is spelled correctly.

Housemade