Showing posts with label pubs & bars. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pubs & bars. Show all posts
Monday, 2 March 2015
Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 166
Mo Juste on mangled Sundays in Northampton:
preformed for performed
Friday, 19 September 2014
You Cannot Be Serious, # 26
A soundbite from comments made by the Managing Director of Everards [sic] Brewery:
The Oxford Dictionaries webpage on ‘Personal pronouns’ observes that ‘[t]he correct use of personal pronouns is one of the areas of English usage that cause most difficulty’, but is concerned only with the erroneous usage of objective personal pronouns for subjective ones. The type of mangle above, where a reflexive pronoun is deployed as a subjective personal pronoun, isn’t mentioned there at all although, as this blog’s first post suggested, it is not uncommon.
Ourselves and the manager will
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| Link: BBC News, ‘Leicester Globe pub closes over anti-military rumours’ |
The Oxford Dictionaries webpage on ‘Personal pronouns’ observes that ‘[t]he correct use of personal pronouns is one of the areas of English usage that cause most difficulty’, but is concerned only with the erroneous usage of objective personal pronouns for subjective ones. The type of mangle above, where a reflexive pronoun is deployed as a subjective personal pronoun, isn’t mentioned there at all although, as this blog’s first post suggested, it is not uncommon.
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