Confessions of a word nerd:
When Spell-check corrected “hors d’ouevres” to “hours devours” I was delighted by the completely accurate incorrect correction.
I wailed with indignation when AP Stylebook, which many publications use as their grammar and usage guide, announced that it now accepted “hopefully” to mean “it is to be hoped” (as in, “Hopefully they will change this stupid decision.”). And I whooped in celebration when it declared that we could abandon “Web site,” and start using “website.”
I toured the awe-inspiring USS Yorktown aircraft carrier in Charleston, and the first picture I took was of a sign that used the word “dominate” instead of “dominant.”
I will happily argue about the Oxford comma (do not like), and deliver a passionate tirade about how you are hurting my ears if you write “that” when you should use “who.” And if I catch you putting punctuation marks outside quotation marks … well, I just can’t be responsible for what might happen.
I share punctuation cartoons.
I believe the world would be a better place if everyone would just pay attention to John McIntyre and Mignon Fogarty.
What do they mean, by calling these bad puns? They are hilarious.