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		<title>Don&#8217;t Fall For It: Super Bowl Commercials are Just Commercials</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Paul Yeager, author of Literally, the Best Language Book Ever and Weather Whys: Facts, Myths, and Oddities I know I&#8217;m in the minority here, but think about it: Are commercials during the Super Bowl really less annoying than commercials during the rest of the year? No, of course not. Sure, we&#8217;re seeing them for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=languageandgrammar.com&amp;blog=2288817&amp;post=4138&amp;subd=languageandgrammar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Fall For It: Super Bowl Commercials are Just Commercials</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Paul Yeager, author of Literally, the Best Language Book Ever and Weather Whys: Facts, Myths, and Oddities I know I&#8217;m in the minority here, but think about it: Are commercials during the Super Bowl really less annoying than commercials during the rest of the year? No, of course not. Sure, we&#8217;re seeing them for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=languageandgrammar.com&amp;blog=2288817&amp;post=4154&amp;subd=languageandgrammar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Microagressions Project</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Paul Yeager, author of Literally, the Best Language Book Ever and Weather Whys: Facts, Myths, and Oddities (Image from TheViitals) What we say matters. What we say might not be considered outwardly racist&#8211;maybe we think we&#8217;re making a joke. Maybe we&#8217;re making a statement that seems like a reasonable assessment of the world around [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=languageandgrammar.com&amp;blog=2288817&amp;post=4128&amp;subd=languageandgrammar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Paul Yeager, author of Weather Whys: Facts, Myths, and Oddities Just a quick (off-topic) note to let you know that I&#8217;ll be on NPR&#8217;s popular Science Friday show tomorrow to join host Ira Flatow and fellow guests Andrew Fraknoi and David Mizejewski. The segment will be called Winter Wonderland? Wonder No Longer. Filed under: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=languageandgrammar.com&amp;blog=2288817&amp;post=4125&amp;subd=languageandgrammar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Paul Yeager, author of Literally, the Best Language Book Ever and Weather Whys: Facts, Myths, and Oddities I don&#8217;t know if you&#8217;ve noticed, but we here at Everything Language and Grammar tend to think that we&#8217;re too obsessed with Christmas and that too many of us forget that Christmas isn&#8217;t celebrated by everyone (last [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=languageandgrammar.com&amp;blog=2288817&amp;post=4115&amp;subd=languageandgrammar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Are They Trying to Say?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:58:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Paul Yeager, author of Literally, the Best Language Book Ever and Weather Whys: Facts, Myths, and Oddities First Night activities are a great way to spend New Year&#8217;s Eve without alcohol, but I&#8217;m not sure that having the First Night 5K Run be sponsored by someone who promises &#8220;Great Care Fast&#8221; is the best [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=languageandgrammar.com&amp;blog=2288817&amp;post=4110&amp;subd=languageandgrammar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Confusion Between Lead and Led</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Paul Yeager, author of Literally, the Best Language Book Ever and Weather Whys: Facts, Myths, and Oddities Lead and led are two completely different words with completely different meanings, but since the past tense of the verb form of lead is pronounced the same as the noun form of the word lead, confusion runs [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=languageandgrammar.com&amp;blog=2288817&amp;post=4098&amp;subd=languageandgrammar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Fritters</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Paul Yeager, author of Literally, the Best Language Book Ever and Weather Whys: Facts, Myths, and Oddities It&#8217;s time for my semi-annual reminder that not all Americans celebrate Christian Holidays (Easter Is a Religious Holiday and Not Everyone Celebrates Christmas), and I&#8217;ll do it by reminding you that other holidays exist, such as National [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=languageandgrammar.com&amp;blog=2288817&amp;post=4093&amp;subd=languageandgrammar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Starprise Entership?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Paul Yeager, author of Literally, the Best Language Book Ever and Weather Whys: Facts, Myths, and Oddities We all make mistakes, but when they&#8217;re public and funny, we&#8217;re talking about perfect blog material. The above image of the famous USS Starprise Entership is one of the many entries included in the English Fail Blog. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=languageandgrammar.com&amp;blog=2288817&amp;post=4085&amp;subd=languageandgrammar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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