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…
May –
Anti-Graft and Corruption Awareness Month
“Corruption drains the nation
and victimizes workers who build the nation.
Accountability now!”
Invoke Article 33 of the ILO Constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar
to carry out the recommendations of the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry
against serious violations of protocols of
Forced Labour and Freedom of Association.
Accept the National Unity Government (NUG)
of Myanmar. Reject Military!
#WearMask #WashHands
#Report Corruption #SearchPosts #TakePicturesVideos
May 1 – Labor Day
May 2 – World Freedom Day
May 12 – World Communication Day
May 15 – International Day of Families
May 16 – International Day of Living
Together in Peace
May 21 – World Day for Cultural Diversity
for Dialogue and Development
Monthly Observances:
The Month of the Ocean
Anti-Graft and Corruption Awareness Month
Volunteerism Month
Weekly Observances:
Week 2: Safe Motherhood Week
Daily Observances:
May 1: Labor Day
May 7: Health Worker’s Day
May 31: National Fisherfolks Day
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