When I saw the word lightning misspelled in an item from Raw Story, I wasn’t particularly surprised. In searching for reliable news, I long ago learned to disregard items from that online publication. But then I did a web search for the phrase “lightning rod,” limiting it to the past year. I found a Target…
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Love Your Language
No one speaks English in exactly the same way. For one thing, we all speak with different regional accents. For another, even the same individual will use different words and grammatical constructions in different situations. Language is an intensely personal thing and we don’t like to be told that there’s something wrong with the way we talk. On the…