Grammar B. posted an article on GrammarBlog - Nov 23, 2009, 4:27 pm
I was at a fireworks display the other week and felt ruddy bloody starving. Needless to say, I steered clear of this van. Look out for it visiting a fun fair near you.
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Grammar B. posted an article on GrammarBlog - Nov 17, 2009, 12:43 pm
Atrocious apostrophe carved in stone, originally uploaded by melita_dennett. Shut your mouth!
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Grammar B. posted an article on GrammarBlog - Nov 4, 2009, 9:46 am
The NHS is, depending on your viewpoint, either a shining example of a caring and noble society or a germ-ridden drain on national resources. Ben Lawrence took this photograph on a bus in Yorkshire a...
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Grammar B. posted an article on GrammarBlog - Oct 25, 2009, 11:42 am
And that’s the spelling mishaps, not to mention the Needless Capitalisation, for now.
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Grammar B. posted an article on GrammarBlog - Oct 20, 2009, 6:45 am
A colleague has just asked me if it is correct to contract “there are” in the phrase “if there are any questions”. His phonetic instinct was to use “there’s” but he correctly deduced t...
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Grammar B. posted an article on GrammarBlog - Oct 6, 2009, 2:07 pm
Reasons Why Regional Newspapers Must Never Die, Vol. 1: This heartwarming tale of youth power from the Manchester Evening News… Schoolboy spots street sign blunder A SCHOOLBOY fears spelling ...
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Grammar B. posted an article on GrammarBlog - Sep 26, 2009, 1:56 pm
You can pay for your cardboard junk food any way you like… Admittedly, this removes quite a major option. I love a good ‘accept’/'except’ catastrophe.  This photo was ta...
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Grammar B. posted an article on GrammarBlog - Sep 22, 2009, 11:54 am
Water Lily’s, originally uploaded by GrammarBlog. This post will be short but sweet.
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Grammar B. posted an article on GrammarBlog - Sep 21, 2009, 4:12 pm
This is quite hard to get your head around. Thanks to bob the bolder who uploaded this picture. Misspellings will happen from time to time, but a bit of consistency should be the least one can expec...
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Grammar B. posted an article on GrammarBlog - Sep 17, 2009, 12:48 pm
They say alcohol dulls the senses… The proprietor of this Manchester ale tavern, which is close to my heart so shall not be named and shamed, had clearly had a few too many of those oxymoronic ...
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Grammar B. posted an article on GrammarBlog - Sep 10, 2009, 2:52 pm
We’re used to being baffled by misplaced apostrophes in the wider world by now, but when they crop up in soap operas too it creates a whole new level of intrigue. In a recent episode of seminal...
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Grammar B. posted an article on GrammarBlog - Aug 30, 2009, 9:30 am
I’m a big, big pie lover (I’ve eaten some bigger than my own face). But like any upright citizen, I only love them when the filling is spelled correctly. On one hand I’m tempted to ...
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Grammar B. posted an article on GrammarBlog - Aug 26, 2009, 2:25 am
There’s nothing that we like more than an engraving gone wrong. The orginal and best, originally uploaded by GrammarBlog. Huge thanks go to Chris Meads of Wigan for sending us this beauty. It ...
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Grammar B. posted an article on GrammarBlog - Aug 25, 2009, 12:41 pm
Good old Jeremy Kyle, he’s got the best job in the world. He wheels out the most stupid and awful people his researchers can find and then humiliates them so he and his audience can feel superio...
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Grammar B. posted an article on GrammarBlog - Aug 22, 2009, 7:37 pm
1.jpg, originally uploaded by GrammarBlog. Thanks for this contribution go to Caroline, who apparently “hearts” Tom GrammarBlog. How sweet.
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Grammar B. posted an article on GrammarBlog - Aug 13, 2009, 1:18 pm
It would be terribly insensitive to make fun of this plaque… Prostrate Cancer????, originally uploaded by revnev. I’m going for a lie down. So I’ll leave that with you, shall I?
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Grammar B. posted an article on GrammarBlog - Aug 13, 2009, 12:51 am
While reading the BBC’s report on the possibility of Mark Ramprakash’s return to test cricket, I saw this cracking example of an Eggcorn. If I had known 10 years ago what I know now there...
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Grammar B. posted an article on GrammarBlog - Aug 9, 2009, 9:59 am
I stumbled across this scattergun approach to apostrophes recently while wandering the gangland streets of south London. Feel free to give this barber a call on the number below and explain the dif...
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Grammar B. posted an article on GrammarBlog - Jul 8, 2009, 4:36 pm
…so much to answer for. My friend and fellow pedant Tom, 24, has submitted this glorious catalogue of errors captured in a brief trip to north-west seaside resort Morecambe. He has also provide...
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Grammar B. posted an article on GrammarBlog - Jul 5, 2009, 12:37 pm
That’s right; not figuratively or metaphorically, but actually blown away. Not my words, reader, the words of the Yorkshire Evening Post. Please insert your own flatulence reference here, natu...
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