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Beautiful handwriting on a sad sad day

I have waited a while before posting this, because it pertains to the tragic Grenfell Tower fire in London and I did not want to be disrespectful to all those who lost their homes and loved ones in the...

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Nope, not a joke…

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Funny newspaper corrections

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What is ‘The Oxford Comma’

The ‘Oxford comma’ is an optional comma before the word ‘and’ at the end of a list: We sell books, videos, and magazines. It’s known as the Oxford comma because it was used by printers, readers, and...

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Don’t they check things anymore?

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BC/AD and BCE/CE – what is the difference and how do I write it?

I have been asked this several times by students recently. BC (Before Christ) and AD (Anno Domini/the year of our Lord), have secular terms – BCE – Before Common/Current Era and CE – Common/Current...

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Those poor parakeets!

A lovely fail from the Daily Mail

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Swindon Borough Council needs grammar lessons

This bench plaque is atrocious.

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Interesting

I have seen this with other letters as well, even e, which is a very common letter. I guess this is something ChatGPT would do very easily.

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Date formats

I grew up with day-month-year, but Sweden uses year-day-month. Read more here

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