Pubic err
The Red Lion Area School District in Pennsylvania has issued an apology for a typo on a recent sports banner. Best line: "We apologize for the error and the concerns…
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September 14, 2012
Sometimes spelling is extra important
I'm usually not one to get too twisted up over language errors and typos and such. English is hard, and mistakes will happen. I might have even made some myself…
September 12, 2012
Nothingburger. With cheese.
I keep coming across words I've never heard before. Have I been living in a cave? Seriously. Today's great discovery is nothingburger. Mary Matalin, the Republican strategist probably best known…
August 22, 2012
My word! Breathless despair over language change
I remember working on a copy desk once long ago and discussing with someone whether a word was actually a word. "It's not in the dictionary," she said. It's true…
August 20, 2012
No one is immune from race codes
Add to the list of things I didn't know: Monday can be a racial code white people use for black people. Interesting. So once I started looking around at other racial…
August 5, 2012
Obama’s new slogan is just fine
So apparently there's some concern about Obama's new slogan: “Forward.” (Specifically, the period at the end there is vexing.) “Even for some in the president's orbit, the added punctuation slams…
July 31, 2012
An embarrassing discovery
I was shocked to discover recently that the word pub is short for public house. How did I not know this? I was watching the delightful “Downton Abbey” when Lord Grantham…
July 31, 2012