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Charlotte says: “I don’t know where my husband bought this tee shirt for our son, but there is a huge mistake on it.  I laugh everytime our son wears it. P.S. No one else, including his teachers or anyone in the public has noticed or pointed out the misspelling!”

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/

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 [...]

Are you a grammar Nazi?  A stickler for punctuation?  Do you want a $50 Amazon.com gift certificate?  Do you want a free link back to your website? The Write Blog is happy to announce our first-ever bad grammar photo contest. We’re inviting all of our fellow readers, writers, word lovers, and grammar geeks to get [...]

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 [...]