Archive for August, 2008
Time for another installment in my Words easily confused series. (For more recent installments, see the errors category of this blog.) As usual, an asterisk indicates an incorrect-usage example. I...
In the past few days, I keep seeing people misuse the phrase "that of" in the same kind of way, apparently for emphasis. Like this: * My primary concern is...
A CNN article this morning, talking about Gov. Tim Kaine of Virginia, notes: "Kaine could help Obama fall in the Democrats' column for the first time in 44 years." Presumably...
Cute typo in New York Times movie page: Two lifelong plutonic friends, strapped for cash and in debt, decide to make a porno. --from the page for Zack and Miri...