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Archive for August, 2008

Jack Kerouac: Definitely Not a Beatnik

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

Far from being a Beatnik, Jack Kerouac was a religiously, politically and socially conservative Catholic who sought the truth of life through his youthful journeys

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More Peculiar English Found at My Local Park

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

What does it mean to “curb” one’s dog in the park, and what is the purpose of such an action when the park is for walking and jogging?

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The title of the new TV show, Newlywed, Nearly Dead, butchers the rules of parallel English construction

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‘Reason Why’ and ‘About How’

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

Reason why and about how are confusing and redundant English misconstructions that should be avoided at all times

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NotWord Quandary: A, O or I?

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

Which sounds and sounds better: Englishapedia, Englishopedia, or Englishipedia?

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Catching Up With Everything

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

Grammar Source takes over and continues my old site, Grammar Sucks, without the stupid word in the title that drew so many sexual-spam e-mails

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