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White Christmas for Many This Year
By Paul Yeager, author of Weather Whys: Facts, Myths and Oddities I know that I recently talked about the fact that not everyone celebrates Christmas, but I don’t think that means the holiday should be ignored. Many people care about … Continue reading
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Over-Inflated Language
By Paul Yeager, author of Literally, the Best Language Book Ever The tendency to say simple things in complicated ways is so common that over-inflated language could be a blog on its own. You might say: There is a tendency … Continue reading
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Way Off Topic: Wealth, Lifespan, and Taxes
By Paul Yeager, author of Literally, the Best Language Book Ever Warning: I’ve done my share of off-topic posts on the blog, but this one is more off-topic than most, so I’ve included this warning: Don’t blame me if the … Continue reading
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Talk About a Holiday Special: Everything Is Free at Target!
By Paul Yeager, author of Literally, the Best Language Book Ever I know that retailers always try to top each other during the Christmas shopping season, but Target has seemingly gotten carried away: Everything in the store is free, at … Continue reading
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Tagged christmas shopping, grammar, guest, guest/host, host, language, target department store, writing
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Not Everyone Celebrates Christmas!
This is something that originally appeared in a weather post on my weather blog (Cloudy and Cool) last year. It was a larger post about the possibility of a White Christmas for many. The weather part of the blog is … Continue reading
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Tone Check
By Paul Yeager, author of Literally, the Best Language Book Ever Did you run a grammar check, spell check, and tone check before sending that important e-mail to your boss? If you were like me (until fairly recently), I didn’t … Continue reading
Come On, Dictionary
By Paul Yeager, author of Literally, the Best Language Book Ever When you heard that refudiate, Sarah Palin’s mistaken combination of refute and repudiate, was made one of the New Oxford American Dictionary’s words of the year, I’m sure that … Continue reading
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Turkey of a Myth
By Paul Yeager, author of Literally, the Best Language Book Ever We have often noted that often repeated language and grammar errors seem to become “correct” usage. Wouldn’t it be weird if math used that philosophy? When enough people said … Continue reading
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Punctuation with However
By Paul Yeager, author of Literally, the Best Language Book Ever Punctuation errors are fairly common, and one of the most common is when using the word however to connect two independent clauses. It’s not as simple as just slapping … Continue reading
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Tagged grammar, however, language, punctuation error, sally from peanuts, writing
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Language And Grammar Resources (and More)
In case you hadn’t noticed, we changed the look of the blog recently. The most recent template didn’t highlight the pages on the site as well as this one does, so let me introduce (or re-introduce) some of the pages … Continue reading
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