Category Archives: grammar

Comma with Because

Posted on July 30, 2009 by languageandgrammar

I often see writers and editors putting a comma before the word because, for example, This won’t surprise anyone who has known her for a long time, because she has always espoused both liberal and conservative perspectives. The problem with … Continue reading →

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Are You Killing the Apostrophe?

Posted on July 27, 2009 by languageandgrammar

Years ago, I came across a column on the demise of the apostrophe, called Are You Killing the Apostrophe. It makes no sense to me to discard a perfectly good and useful mark of punctuation simply because some people don’t … Continue reading →

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More Language Pet Peeves

Posted on July 5, 2009 by languageandgrammar

I always like to say that everyone has at least one pet peeve, and based on the number of comments that we’ve received on the Your Pet Peeves page, I’m obviously right! We’ve decided to occasionally highlight some of your … Continue reading →

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Yellowbook It

Posted on June 25, 2009 by languageandgrammar

I recently wrote a post about the expanding usage of google it (Googled It on Youtube), but now Yellowbook is actively trying to turn the name of its company into a verb by suggesting that people should yellowbook it when … Continue reading →

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Googled It on Youtube

Posted on June 22, 2009 by languageandgrammar

That’s right, ladies and gentlemen. I actually heard someone say “I googled it on Youtube.” Google, of course, is a search engine, not a verb. If it were a verb, it would most likely mean to search for something on … Continue reading →

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You Said It…

Posted on June 1, 2009 by languageandgrammar

I’m sure that our regular readers have noticed that we’ve occasionally taken to making posts out of your pet peeves, so that’s what we’ll do again today. We agree with most of them. We’ve written about some of them (links … Continue reading →

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Mantuary

Posted on May 20, 2009 by languageandgrammar

The good news is that I might have been too harsh on one of the terms that I’ve made reference to in the past–man cave. Sure, it’s annoying, trendy, and sexist with a seventh-grade maturity level, but at least it’s … Continue reading →

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Larry King on Language

Posted on May 17, 2009 by languageandgrammar

When I was doing a recent google search for trendy language (is that really that much more difficult than saying when I recently googled trendy language?), I came across some Larry King commentary on the topic. His comments, found at … Continue reading →

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Your Language Complaints

Posted on May 6, 2009 by languageandgrammar

That’s right, ladies and gentlemen, this is the fourth installment of what you, the readers languageandgrammar.com, have listed as Your Pet Peeves. Since we’ve had well over 100 comments, with probably close to 200 peeves, we thought that it only … Continue reading →

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Close But No Cigarette

Posted on April 30, 2009 by languageandgrammar

We’ve all done it–either misstated something or slightly mangled a common statement or cliche, and the result was a humorous sentence that didn’t make sense. I call this “close but no cigarette.” One of our blogger friends, Pamela Villars, recently … Continue reading →

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