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Comment on To whom it may concern by Best of the Blogs: Snips, Tricks and Pix | Words At Work

Best of the Blogs: Snips, Tricks and Pix | Words At Work — Sun, 13 May 2012 22:38:45 +0000

[...] whether to use “who” or “whom,” Lisa McLendon at The Wichita Eagle‘s Grammar Monkeys blog has a neat little trick that seems to work every [...]

Comment on Just you and I: Subject and object pronouns by Weekly favorites (Dec 12-18) | Adventures in Freelance Translation

Weekly favorites (Dec 12-18) | Adventures in Freelance Translation — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:51:25 +0000

[...] business… A Day In the Life of Mad Patent Translator Words of the Year 2011: Fritinancy Edition Just you and I: Subject and object pronouns Best Practices for Centralizing Translation Lesson 19: Terms and conditions for translators Psst [...]

Comment on Grammar costs nothing by Editing Shark - Grammar Café - Throw National Grammar Day Under the Train?

Editing Shark - Grammar Café - Throw National Grammar Day Under the Train? — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 20:25:36 +0000

[...] Just Stupid As the Grammar Monkeys point out, grammar rules are not just a “cudgel to bash anyone who steps out of line.” Some [...]

Comment on Grammar costs nothing by Because really, every day is Grammar Day « Mighty Red Pen

Because really, every day is Grammar Day « Mighty Red Pen — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 01:26:40 +0000

[...] likely to buy something from a website that has even a single misspelling.” Check out “Grammar costs nothing.” Finally, check out the thrilling conclusion to John E. McIntyre’s serial, [...]

Comment on The Versatile Blogger Award by The Versatile Blogger Award | Wordnik ~ all the words

The Versatile Blogger Award | Wordnik ~ all the words — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:25:26 +0000

[...] always awesome Grammar Monkeys have nominated me, Wordnik, for a Versatile Blogger Award. The rules say I need to list seven [...]

Comment on The year in typos (or should we say “typo’s”) by Weekly favorites (Jan 2-8) | Adventures in Freelance Translation

Weekly favorites (Jan 2-8) | Adventures in Freelance Translation — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:31:39 +0000

[...] Memory Analysis How to align documents in memoQ (Part 1) The Best of Daily Writing Tips in 2011 The year in typos (or should we say “typo’s”) Why copyright law is important for translators This Week’s Language Blog Roundup Continuous [...]

Comment on When spell-check won’t help: How typos sneak into writing by Bedford Bits: Ideas for Teaching Composition » Blog Archive » My Little Grammar and Spelling Rant

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:35:22 +0000

[...] Grammar Monkeys from the Wichita Eagle recently shared a list of just that sort of error: When spell-check won’t help: How typos sneak into writing. It’s a useful starting place for class discussion of the things that confound spell checkers and [...]

Comment on The world’s a smorgasbord for English by The English language as a buffet « A.C. Williams

The English language as a buffet « A.C. Williams — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 13:04:28 +0000

[...] The world’s a smorgasbord for English [...]

Comment on The world’s a smorgasbord for English by 3 Things I Learned Online This Week | Words at Work

3 Things I Learned Online This Week | Words at Work — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 03:55:11 +0000

[...] 1. Word of the Week: Embiggens — Lisa McLendon, at Grammar Monkeys, offers a brief tour of our language language and its origins: The World’s a Smorgasbord for English. [...]

Comment on Corrections with a smile by This Week’s Language Blog Roundup | Wordnik ~ all the words

This Week’s Language Blog Roundup | Wordnik ~ all the words — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 21:04:56 +0000

[...] how to use mixed metaphors badly, and how to use them well. From Grammar Monkeys we learned how to correct others’ grammar with a smile, while the Yale Grammatical Diversity project is seeking to document the “syntactic diversity [...]