February 2012
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Bear Cub vs. Wolf Pup Cuteness Overload Video :... →
Thanks, Lindsey.
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20 Common Grammar Mistakes That (Almost) Everyone... →
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January 2012
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The ghost of Hotmail
You should read my friend Katie’s tumblr of things people should stop doing. She’s funny.
stop-it-just-stop:
Stop posting chain Facebook statuses.
You are resurrecting 1998 and the ghost of our collective Hotmail account. We’re haunted.
Stop it.
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Should Vanity Fair Be a Spelling Vigilante?
Just as New York Times public editor Arthur S. Brisbane is concerned whether his newspaper is printing lies or the truth, we here at V.F. are looking for reader input on whether and when Vanity Fair should spell “words” correctly in the stories we publish.
One example: the word “maintenance” seems like it should only have one “a” in it. It should be “maintenence,” right? But it’s not. So is it...
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The Classic Concordance of Cacographic Chaos
From [Journal of the Simplified Spelling Society, 1994/2 pp27-30 later designated J17]
The Chaos represents a virtuoso feat of composition, a mammoth catalogue of about 800 of the most notorious irregularities of traditional English orthography, skilfully versified (if with a few awkward lines) into couplets with alternating feminine and masculine rhymes. The selection of examples now appears...
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December 2011
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