Words that are not actually words drive me nuts. I’m not talking about useful made-up words like “janky” (which means “crappy”) or “trotch” (an excellent swear word). Those kind of words are fine. The ones that bother me are those common slips you hear frequently that are either a massacre of the accepted form of [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Grammar'
Height v. Heighth: MDIC Word Deathmatch Vol. I
September 24th, 2007 · 17 Comments
Tags: Grammar
A grammatical interlude
November 8th, 2005 · 22 Comments
I live in Oregon now. I have left New York City and its politics behind, and therefore I need to register to vote in the State of Oregon. This got me to thinking that I also need to change my driver’s (drivers?) license, which brings us to the title of this post. I went to [...]
Suck it up and drink
January 28th, 2005 · 6 Comments
It may be hard to believe, but it’s the truth: coffee in New York is terrible. We may have the best bagels and pizza in the world available at all hours of the night, but we just don’t do coffee—or if we do, we do it poorly. The one bonus of New York coffee is [...]
Tags: Grammar · New York City
