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Humorous Resume Mistakes
By Paul Yeager, author of Literally, the Best Language Book Ever Who doesn’t enjoy a little humor related to funny typos, mistakes, and wacky statements on a resume or cover letter–except for those who made the mistake and didn’t get … Continue reading
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Myself Cannot Be the Subject of a Sentence
Do not use myself as the subject of a sentence. Myself and the other -self words—himself, herself, ourselves, etc.—are reflexives, and reflexives cannot be used as subjects. Nominatives should be used as subjects. The nominatives are I, we, he, she, … Continue reading
Dear America–David Mitchell
For some reason, I feel that I should introduce this video of a funny British man giving a language rant with the line of “And now for something completely different.”
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Common Grammar Errors
Since we changed the design of the site, I know that some of our other pages are not as obvious as they were in the past, but they’re still there, including: Sherry’s Grammar List, which includes a heavy dose of … Continue reading
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Facilitate Does Not Mean To Lead
By Paul Yeager, author of Literally, the Best Language Book Ever We all have those certain little words or phrases that just drive us crazy (If you need proof, see our Pet Peeves page), and the word facilitate has become … Continue reading
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Writing Tips
One of the things that I do for my “day job” is post a monthly writing tip on the Administrative Information Services (AIS) Web site, so I thought I’d highlight that here today: AIS Writing Tips. Some of the information there … Continue reading
Useless Phrases
I just realized something. Writing articles and blog entries about annoying words and phrases has become so popular that they (lists of annoying words and phrases) could fill a book–not the annoying words or phrases, but the lists themselves! One … Continue reading
Language Game
Can you name the most commonly used words in English? Clicking on the link above will take you to a sporcle.com page that contains a word game that tests your knowledge of common English words. Good luck. –Paul
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Bad Economy–Bad New Words
Whenever I see newly created words, I often think of Sherry’s recently invented word, funfaithful, because her contrived word is at least as good as these new economy words, which were discussed recently on the Oxford University Press USA blog: Funemployed … Continue reading
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