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Most Stupid or Stupidest: Stupid Grammar Error
The superlative form of stupid is most stupid, as in I made the most stupid mistake, not stupidest. Stupidest can be heard and seen everywhere, including many modern dictionaries, but it’s wrong. (Please don’t ask me to roll out my … Continue reading
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Tagged comparative, English, grammar error, stupid, stupider, stupidest, superlative, writing
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Diss Goes Mainstream
It’s interesting to follow the progression of one generation’s trendy words as they spread into the more mainstream lexicon. The reason that the new generation started to create the new, trendy way of speaking was to separate themselves from the … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrea Mitchell, Chris Matthews, diss, English, grammar, language, MSNBC, Newt Gingrich, politics, writing
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Sneak or Snuck: Sneak’s Snuck Sneaked In
Speaking of sneaking, maybe that’s how the word snuck got into the dictionary; I can’t think of any other reason for it to be there. Although snuck is used fairly widely, the correct past tense and past participle of sneak … Continue reading
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Tagged English, grammar error, past participle, past tense, sneak, sneaked or snuck, writing
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War on Everything
Many of us have heard of the law of attraction, which is the belief that whatever a person experiences is a direct reflection of what he believes. For instance, if he believes that he has to fight for every penny, then he will, indeed, have … Continue reading
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Tagged English, grammar, language, law of attraction, war, war on crime, war on drugs, war on poverty, writing
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Definite Possibility
An oxymoron is the pairing of two or more words to create a meaning that is contradictory or seems to be contradictory. A couple of examples of oxymorons that seem contradictory include objective opinion, speed bump, and jumbo shrimp. (For what … Continue reading
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Tagged definite possibility, English, grammar, language, oxymoron, writing
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I Want to Be a Statistic–Sometimes
A statistic is a numerical value or fact or an inanimate numerical representation of a piece of information. Examples include 53% of the the vote, $3.59 cents per gallon, a .309 batting average, and 63% of all bananas that my co-worker brings to … Continue reading
Whether or Not
When I was in high school, I wrote a short, humorous poem about my potential future career; it was titled Weather or Not. Unless you’re reading that poem, which is highly unlikely since it’s never left the back of my closet, you … Continue reading
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Tagged English, grammar error, language, whether or not, writing
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Fed Up with Up
Up, Up, and Away could be the title of a sequel to Literally, the Best Language Book Ever. Rather than a book with 350-plus words, phrases, and expressions that you should never use again, it would be a book with … Continue reading
Sit, Set: Setting the Record Straight
You’re not really supposed to sit something on a table, and you’re not supposed to set awhile when you need to rest. It’s not the actions to which I object; it’s the verbs used to do them. To set means … Continue reading
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Tagged English, grammar error, set something, set vs sit, writing
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Obama Republican
Here at Languageandgrammar.com, we not only tell you what the current most annoying words, phrases, and expressions are, but we go a step further by occasionally anticipating and predicting what some of the next most annoying words, phrases, and expressions … Continue reading
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Tagged it is what it is, Obama Republican, political language, political terms, Reagan Democrat, two-party system, writing
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