Archive for the ‘Vocabularious’ Category

A message from the United Lawn Dart Workers Association.
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- “HANDICAP” should be “HANDICAPPED”
- There is no need for quotes around “CHILDREN”

First topic: Numbers! They’re like letters that you can count.
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- “ORENTATION” should be “ORIENTATION”
- “PASS” should be “PAST”

Bucky wants subject-verb agreement.
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- “Each year there is numerous” should be “Each year there are numerous”
- “one campus” should be “on campus”

I prefer the community chest.
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- “WAIST” should be “WASTE”

Tell me more about how I can to support my local growers for my very much apple enjoyment!
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Except for signage.
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Sort of like Starbucks?
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- “STore” should be “store”
- “Permanately” should be “permanently”
- “CLOSE” should be “CLOSED”

Why you’d want to relieve yourself in a place that looks like the set of one of those Saw movies is beyond me. Why oh why are all the knobs missing?
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- “their” should be “there”
- “bath room” should be one word
- “bathroom here next door” doesn’t make sense
- Better: “The bathroom is next door”

Would that SL Buggs had himself made a “mute” point and spared us the gritting of our teeth.
Photo by Lana, via e-mail
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- “mute point” should actually be “moot point”

It must have been a slow news day in Toronto. Over to you, Tom, in the anti-climactic news department.
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