The Write Blog

Chris says: “You’d think they’d mess up ‘dessert’ before spelling ‘dining’ wrong. Maybe they were so concerned about getting dessert right that they didn’t pay attention to the rest of the words. Double consonants make call for a short vowel sign. Isn’t that one of the earliest spelling rules we learn?” Check out Chris’ website [...]

Check out this grammar-fail photo from our friend and fellow writer Kevin Tumlinson.  And yes, he found this on a college campus.  Thanks for the entry, Kevin! And be sure to visit Kevin’s website:  http://www.kevintumlinson.com/

Congratulations to our first official (in other words, doesn’t work for us and is therefore qualified to win free stuff) grammar-fail photo entry.  Thanks to Very Married for this awesome example of unnecessary quotation marks. Very Married says:  ”Two reasons this is awful:  First, if this is “water” then where is the real stuff?  Second, [...]

This great grammar-fail photo is from Michelle.  If she didn’t work here, she’d totally be in the running for a gift certificate from Amazon.com.  If you don’t work for us, and you’d like to get in on our grammar-fail contest, send us your best original grammar-fail photo.  We’ll post it on our blog, and you’ll [...]

This question came up during a round of in-house editing this week, so – of course –I wanted to share: Complete this sentence:  I spent hours  _______ over the pages of the magazine. A.)   poring B.)   pouring The correct answer is A, “poring.” “Pore” means to study or read something with great care.  You’d pore [...]