Grammar Pet Peeves

The Phrase That Makes You Sound Like A Loser

Zoë Triska | Posted 05.21.2012

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Zoë Triska

Once upon a time, I dated this guy. He was a complete douchebag. Oh, there were many signs in advance that he was scummy. He was very rarely available; seeing him was always on his terms; he never really wanted to commit, even after months of dating.

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Is The Apostrophe About To Disappear?

Henry Hitchings | Posted 01.01.2012

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Henry Hitchings

While this is not to say that the apostrophe should be renounced, there is plenty of evidence that it is on the way out. Like a lot of moderately successful devices, it continues to have fans - not least the people whose names contain apostrophes.

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Don't Blame These Book Problems on the Author!

Dave Astor | Posted 12.18.2011

Read More: J.K. Rowling, Libraries, Leo Tolstoy, Charlotte Bronte, Hollywood, Mary Shelley, Jane Eyre, Abridged Books, h.g. Wells, Harry Potter, Grammar Pet Peeves, Literature Pet Peeves, Book Pet Peeves, Books News
Dave Astor

So, with an affectionate nod to Peeves the Poltergeist of Harry Potter, here are a few book-related pet peeves that aren't the authors' fault.

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Affect Or Effect? 'Grammar Girl' On The 101 Misused Words You'll Never Confuse

npr.org | By Mignon Fogarty | Posted 09.06.2011

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Further versus farther, compliment versus complement, affect versus effect -- the ever-complex, often-irregular English language is full of traps and ...

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PHOTOS Grammar Pet Peeves: 4th of July Edition

Posted 08.31.2011

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It's 4th of July weekend (pretty much) and we are thinking about the same things as you are: hotdogs, hamburgers, beach, pool, sun and, most of all, r...

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Grammar Pet Peeves: Em Dashes—Why Writers Should Use Them More Sparingly

Slate Magazine | Noreen Malone | Posted 07.26.2011

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According to the Associated Press Stylebook--Slate's bible for all things punctuation- and grammar-related--there are two main prose uses--the abrupt ...

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Grammar Pet Peeves: Who, Whom, None Is Or Are?

Robert Lane Greene | Posted 07.22.2011

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Robert Lane Greene

Many people think of language as a set of rules; break them, and you're Wrong. But that's not how language works. There are different degrees of wrongness, and there's not a bright line between the degrees.

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Grammar Pet Peeves: The Most Cringe Worthy Mistakes Yet (PHOTOS)

Posted 06.26.2011

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We admit that grammar is not always simple. After all, there are some complicated rules in the English language. The following mistakes, however, ...

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Besotted, Obsessed, Affinity: Grammar Pet Peeves, The Valentine's Day Edition (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Zoe Triska | Posted 05.25.2011

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In honor of Valentine's Day, we searched for some love-themed grammar pet peeves. We are absolutely enamored, besotted, obsessed...uh, is it of, by ...

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The Oatmeal: What It Means When You Say "Literally"

The Oatmeal | Posted 05.25.2011

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Literally means actually or without exaggeration. When you say "I literally...," it means you're describing something exactly as it happened......

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The Book-Length Sentence In The Age Of Twitter

New York Times | ED PARK | Posted 05.25.2011

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The most famous mega-sentence in literature comes at the end of the book, not the beginning. Molly Bloom's monologue from "Ulysses" (1922) --36 pages ...

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Grammar Pet Peeves

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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Although most likely better remembered for Snookie and Kanye's Tweets, 2010 also had its fair share of momentous grammar events. From misused to apost...

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Calling The Grammar Police!

Posted 05.25.2011

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We've all griped about grammar before and our popular series of Grammar Pet Peeves slide shows has shown that Huff Post Books readers are a legion of ...

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Grammar Pet Peeves

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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As writers, readers and all around bibliophiles, the HuffPost Books community, including us, can't get enough of the schadenfreude of grammar mistakes...

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'Toponymity'

John Marciano | Posted 05.25.2011

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John Marciano

But how many people know that "hack" comes from Hackney in London, jeans from Genoa, or coach from the Hungarian city of Kocs?

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Official New Dictionary Words

The Guardian | Alison Flood | Posted 05.25.2011

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Around 2,000 new words, phrases, and meanings have been added to the dictionary of American English, including bromance -- defined as "a close but non...

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Grammar Pet Peeves

Bethany Keeley | Posted 05.25.2011

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Bethany Keeley

At one time in history, quotation marks served a single purpose: they were used for quoting people. But from my experience assembling both "The Book o...

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Chicago Manual Of Style Guide Changes Grammar Rules

Glendale News Press | June Casagrande | Posted 05.25.2011

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But every once in a while, the people overseeing what you read change the rules, as the "Chicago Manual of Style" did recently when it released its 16...

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Arianna's Grammar Pet Peeve

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Grammar Errors, Grammar Mistakes, Pluralizations, Grammar Pet Peeves, Apostrophes, Spelling, Grammar, Punctuation, Books News
Arianna Huffington

Now I really hate to make such a big stink about a little squiggle. But sometimes a small thing like this can have much bigger ramifications.

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Grammar Pet Peeves: HuffPost Readers Pick The Worst Grammar, Spelling, Punctuation, And Malapropism Mistakes Ever (PHOTOS, POLL)

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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Grammar pet peeves seem to get as big a rise out of the HuffPost community as the off the wall comments of Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh. We've collect...

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The Grammar Police Strikes Again!

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 05.25.2011

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<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

I must be out of my mind to care about this spelling, punctuation and grammar nonsense. Nobody else seems to.

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