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Seasonal Pluralization & Other Errors
‘Tis the season for bookish gifts, literary awards, and pluralization troubles. Greeting cards and holiday imagery are usually littered with seasonal sentiments and last name conundrums – so today we will get to the bottom of common mistakes made with plural (and non-plural) titles as well as other errors. When used in a sentence, the “merry” before Christmas is usually incorrectly capitalized: We wish you a Merry Christmas! We wish you a merry Christmas! The same goes for New Year’s Day and Eve: Have a safe and Happy New Year! Have a safe and happy New Year! Of course, the argument can be made for capitalizing all the words on a…
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Punctuation: The Difference Between…
Let’s eat grandma! Let’s eat, grandma! We’re going to cut and paste, kids. We’re going to cut and paste kids. Were going to cut and paste kids. Your shit. You’re shit. (Your, You’re; They’re, Their, There) I like eating my family and my dog. I like eating, my family, and my dog. We met the strippers, a frog and Channing Tatum. We met the strippers, a frog, and Channing Tatum. (Oxford Comma > no Oxford Comma) Periods and question marks are probably the most well known and properly used forms of punctuation. What about the exclamation point, you ask? I didn’t include it in that sentence, because the indicator of emphasis is frequently overdone, or used…
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