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Grammar Girl Rant

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Grammar Girl Rant

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  1. Grammar Girl Rant Top 5 Pet Peeves of 2008

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  19. Honorable Mention

  20. Honorable Mention He complained about people making up words like "conversate" and "pronunciate" and noted that it needed to terminate, not stopitate.

  21. Honorable Mention He complained about people making up words like "conversate" and "pronunciate" and noted that it needed to terminate, not stopitate.

  22. Honorable Mention He complained about people making up words like "conversate" and "pronunciate" and noted that it needed to terminate, not stopitate.

  23. Honorable Mention He complained about people making up words like "conversate" and "pronunciate" and noted that it needed to terminate, not stopitate.

  24. Honorable Mention He complained about people making up words like "conversate" and "pronunciate" and noted that it needed to terminate, not stopitate.

  25. Carelessness “Prospect Dumps Realtor For Careless Grammar” by Gary Seigel “An [realtor] agent told me recently she had lost a client because of a punctuation error.”

  26. Carelessness Pedantic= Fussy, bookish, precise

  27. Carelessness “So number five on the 2008 pet peeves list is a careless attitude about language.”

  28. Myself Misuse of Myself

  29. Myself Fewer = countable items Less= abstract amounts “10 items or fewer” “Does my glass have less juice than yours?”

  30. Myself i-spesh-uh-lee

  31. Myself e-spres-oh

  32. Myself Like LikeLikeLikeLike Like LikeLikeLikeLike Like LikeLikeLikeLike Like LikeLikeLikeLike Like LikeLikeLikeLike Like LikeLikeLikeLike Like LikeLikeLikeLike

  33. Myself Like LikeLikeLikeLike Like LikeLikeLikeLike Like LikeLikeLikeLike Like LikeLikeLikeLike Like LikeLikeLikeLike Like LikeLikeLikeLike Like LikeLikeLikeLike Like LikeLikeLikeLike Like LikeLikeLikeLike Like LikeLikeLikeLike Like LikeLikeLikeLike Like LikeLikeLikeLike Like LikeLikeLikeLike Like LikeLikeLikeLike

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  35. Myself Misuse of Myself

  36. Myself Send the message to Squiggly and myself.

  37. Myself Send the message to Squiggly and myself. WRONG

  38. Myself Send the message to Squiggly and myself. WRONG Send the message to Squiggly and me.

  39. Myself Myself and Bob are going to the meeting.

  40. Myself WRONG Myself and Bob are going to the meeting.

  41. Myself WRONG Myself and Bob are going to the meeting. Bob and I are going to the meeting.

  42. Tap

  43. Tap Obama tappedso-and-so for secretary of lawn mowing.

  44. Tap “’I do not underestimate the enormity of the task that lies ahead,’ Obama told the Grant Park crowd at his November acceptance speech.” Quote from “Obama speech sparks misuse of enormous proportions” by Mary Schmich

  45. Tap “… the use is a U.S. colloquialism, meaning it's questionable to use it in formal situations.”

  46. Tap

  47. Tap appointed

  48. Tap selected

  49. Tap chose

  50. Tap designated

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