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…
September 18 –
International Equal Pay Day
“Increase wages now,
more than other cost items.
For widespread, practical equality!”
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
October –
Monthly Observances:
Industry and Commerce Safety Month
National Statistics Month
Local Government Month
Consumer Welfare Month
Cooperative Month
National Quality and Productivity Improvement Month
National Health and Wellness Tourism Month
National Indigenous Peoples Month
Weekly Observances:
Week 1: Elderly Filipino Week
Week 2: National Health Education Week
Local Government Week
National Mental Health Week
October 17-23:
National Week for Overcoming Extreme Poverty
October 18 – 24:
United Nations Week
Last Week:
Nurses’ Week
Consumers’ Protection Week
Week of the 4th Sunday:
Barrio Farmers’ Week
Daily Observances:
First Monday (Oct 4): Universal Children’s Day i
n the Philippines
Oct 5: National Teachers’ Day
Oct 10: Local Government Day
Third Thursday (Oct 14): Conflict Resolution Day
Oct 21: Tenants’ Emancipation day
Oct 24: United Nations Day
Oct 29: National Indigenous People’s Thanksgiving Day
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