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…
July 2025
Nutrition Month
“Give us much more than P50 increase
for proper nutrition!”
Invoke Article 33 of the ILO Constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar
to carry out the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry recommendations
against serious violations of
Forced Labour and Freedom of Association protocols.
Accept National Unity Government (NUG)
of Myanmar. Reject Military!
#WearMask #WashHands #Distancing #TakePicturesVideosturesVideos
July
3 July – International Day of Cooperatives
3 July – International Plastic Bag Free Day
5 July – World Youth Skills Day
7 July – Global Forgiveness Day
11 July – World Population Day
17 July – World Day for International Justice
28 July – World Nature Conservation Day
30 July – World Day against Trafficking in Persons
Monthly Observances:
Schools Safety Month
Nutrition Month
National Disaster Consciousness Month
Weekly Observances:
Week 2: Cultural Communities Week
Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise
Development Week
Week 3: National Science and
Technology Week
National Disability Prevention and
Rehabilitation Week
July 1-7:
National Culture Consciousness Week
July 13-19:
Philippines Business Week
Week ending last Saturday of July:
Arbor Week
Daily Observances:
First Saturday of July:
International Cooperative Day
in the Philippines
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