Hairy
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Number of comments posted: 29
Number of votes received: 18
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on: Semicolon between sentences joined by a coordinating conjunction
People take grammar too seriously. I've heard the following ...
on: injecting swear words
tmesis is correct. it is a type of pleonasm....
on: Resume, resumé, or résumé?
how about abandoning the accent thing and spell it with Engl...
on: eg, e.g., or eg.
It's actually spelled "egg"....
on: “If I was” vs. “If I were”
I can't believe that no one has mentioned the fact that the ...
on: “8 inches is” or “8 inches are”
AnWulf, one of the model questions you use is the following:...
on: “American”
If you want to be sensitive to the PC police among us who be...
on: “8 inches is” or “8 inches are”
Yes, the context is extremely important. It's the same thing...
on: “It is what it is”
That's true, it is Irish. I looked it up on a site this morn...
on: “It is what it is”
That's a classic comment, Adw! People have been saying that ...
on: attorneys general vs. attorney generals
correction--should read "...with an adjective (general)."...
on: attorneys general vs. attorney generals
Actually, it's Majors General. It's the same as attorneys ge...
on: Semicolon between sentences joined by a coordinating conjunction
Correct, a conjunction is not needed, as you say, dogreed, b...
on: It is you who are/is ...
It is I who eats ...; it is they who drink ...; it is we who...
on: It is you who are/is ...
It is we who am ...; it is you who art ...; it is she who am...
on: It is you who are/is ...
It is you who am ...; it is I who are ...; It is he who art...
on: Semicolon between sentences joined by a coordinating conjunction
It seems, dogreed, that sigurd got the info from a website, ...
on: “It is what it is”
providencejim is right. It comes from the eastern coast of t...
on: “It is what it is”
I would be concerned about the legality of posting something...
on: “It is what it is”
Ce n'est pas du tout fin, mon ami, William Safire. And to sa...
on: cannot vs. can not
It is also contradicting to write "need not". One need do so...
on: Specifying time duration without “for”
The issue you are talking about is transitivity. "To live" m...
on: Two Weeks Notice
Oh, and may I add that I should have written "five-years old...
on: What happened to who, whom and whose?
The distinction among who, whom and whose has become merely ...
on: cannot vs. can not
Cannot is only accepted in the U.K. It is not considered to ...
on: mines
I think the problem is not that African Americans are trying...
on: “My writing books” or “Me writing books”?
Wow, what a douchebag you are, Entomophagist!...
December 19, 2011, 6:50pm • 0 vote
on: all _____ sudden
Wilkie Collins uses "all on a sudden" in The Woman in White....