11 Best Uses of Bad Grammar from The Simpsons
When it comes to comedy, sometimes a little grammatical wrongnity is exactly what’s called for.
When it comes to comedy, sometimes a little grammatical wrongnity is exactly what’s called for.
Why does it look like a snail?
Before you argue with me, read the whole explanation about why each of these is a myth.
Mignon Fogarty is the founder of Quick and Dirty Tips and is known for her Grammar Girl website, podcast, and games.
Punctuation marks accept their utilitarian roles, but they too carry feelings, and they express them in subtle ways that are sometimes easy to miss.
In 2014, a leaked copy of the Directorate of Intelligence Style Manual & Writer's Guide for Intelligence Publication, a.k.a. Strunk & White for spies, found its way to the Internet.
Careful where you put that hyphen—here are eight rules from the AP Stylebook that you might never know unless you looked them up.
Caroline Winter (sitting in for William Safire) tackles the issue of the English capitalized "I" in her column My, Myself and I in yesterday's Times Magazine. It's an interesting read (okay, and deliciously nerdy), touching on the use of personal pronoun
Chomskybot is a web-hosted program that generates text which appears similar to (and based on) the famously hard-to-follow linguistic work of Noam Chomsky. But unlike Chomsky's actual work, Chomskybot's text is devoid of meaning. Circling back on itself
Believe it or not, this sentence is grammatically correct and has meaning: "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo."
We've covered LOLCats before (including Miss C.'s hit LOLCat of Death post), but now things have gotten a little out of hand. The phenomenon of LOLCat Grammar has now matured enough to support a translation of the Bible into LOLCat language. Seriously.
I've long been interested in Image Macros, which are best described as web based images with text superimposed on them. Okay, that's a poor description. Here's an
There are two kinds of people. Those who don't take issue with this post's title, and those now compelled to send me hate mail. Five years ago, I had no idea the second camp existed. Setting out on a quest for grammar excellence, I had picked up a book