A friend sent me this picture from her recent Florida vacation. I’ll explain the many errors.
- First paragraph. First red circle should be “larger” and second small red circle should be the closing parenthesis mark.
- Third paragraph – extra space between “omega” and the dash.
- Next red circle, “lobster” isn’t capitalized in other parts of the paper.
- The next two red circles – the first circled word should be “than” and there should be a period at the end of the sentence.
- The last red circle should be “younger ones” if you’re going to talk about multiple “older lobsters.”
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A reader wrote and asked me whether the phrase “attorney-client privilege” or “attorney-client privileged” was correct. I gave her my answer and told her that I would write a blog post on it.
I typically scroll right past most Facebook memes because they are full of grammar errors (and we all know that makes me crazy)! But this one was one of the worst I’ve seen, so I had to share.
I saw this sign more than once at Disneyland (consistency is good!). I thought something was wrong with it, so snapped this picture vowing to do some research and figure out if I was correct. The problem is whether it should be “age” or “aged.”
A friend and I were recently discussing what our possibilities for recreation are for a trip to Sedona, Arizona, this summer. When I said “vortexes,” her response was “shouldn’t it be vortices?” I had never heard that word, but told her I would investigate and use it as a blog topic. So here we are.
