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Browsing Tag »grammar«

Newswordy: Where Buzzwords Take High Tea →  June 7, 2011

Newswordy is a new site that celebrates buzzwords used in the media. Its focus is on words that don’t typically occur in normal speech but are common with the information elite like newsreaders and pundits on cable news. Updated each weekday, the site showcases one of these buzzwords with a definition as well as examples of [...]

How Not to Sound Like Rachel Zoe … Literally →  December 23, 2010

Dear Agony Uncle, I literally don’t know when to use the word ‘literally’ correctly. I’m sure there are literally hundreds of others out there also. Help! Literally Minded, Melbourne Dear Literally Minded, Stylist, Rachel Zoe may be able to throw a look together like nobody else, but she’s not exactly known for her oratory skills. [...]

I hope you brought your meat cleaver →  June 23, 2009

Here at I Do Believe I Came with a Hat our motto is ‘Education through Ridicule’, or in Latin, ‘Arseholus Smarmius’. Consider me the concerned friend who tells you you’re looking fat not because I don’t want to be seen with you, but because your shirt buttons are at bursting point and they might have [...]