If you’re selling, spelling counts. People who write for a living have no excuse to misuse ordinary English usage.
Month: February 2017
February
The disconnect between the spelling and pronunciation of some English words is not a sinister plot to annoy English speakers.
Beware of “Whom” with Parenthetical Expressions
This morning the following caption appeared in a Democrat-Gazette article about a bank robbery: Springdale police are searching for this man whom they say robbed an Arvest Bank branch Thursday. The error with whom in this caption is common in sentences that contain a parenthetical phrase or clause: a group of words thrown into another…
New Word: DeVossed
A Google search for “devossed” in quotation marks brings up only 521 hits on February 9, 2017, but my spidey sense tells me this word is destined to achieve greater numbers in the following weeks and months. The Urban Dictionary has already posted an entry: DEVOSSED: When the last tiny shred of hope is shattered.…