Engless

Filipinos make mistakes mixing metaphors. So do Americans! Can you spot the errors? English professors love to catch the errors students make in their term papers, and they love nothing better than to catch mixed metaphors. The “friends and survivors” of Calvin College English department collected this list of mixed metaphors and posted them on…

Misuse of restrictive relative clause makes zombies of dead war veterans

Following are some very funny spelling bloopers caught in local newspapers, publications and various emails. See if you can catch the errors. – From Laffaday

Conflicting Proverbs Actions speak louder than words. The pen is mightier than the sword.

“Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.” –Wendell Johnson

One attends a meeting or seminar or a conference. One doesn’t attend to a meeting or seminar … … but a doctor attends to (treats) a patient. One participates in a seminar or a conference. One doesn’t participate to a seminar … … but one goes to a seminar. Action results in an outcome. Action…

(from a social networking site) fun to be with, sweet, lovely ,charming easy to get along …have since of humor , but moody sometimes , like travelling site seeing , im a natures lover…and have a deep view of life … gudluck to all and wish i could find the better ones….

“Engless” is my own word for wrong English For Those who Reed and Right

On the streets of Birmingham, the queen’s English is now the queens English.

Last November, the folks at Oxford University came out with a list of “top 10 irritating expressions” in the English language, by which I suppose they meant the English language as it’s employed in their corner of the English-speaking world, and not necessarily in what used to be the backwaters of the Bard’s dominion, in…