Can you write a bad story on purpose? USA Today offers you an opportunity to see if you can write a worse story than the guy who pleased judges with his bad writing. Here’s a resource to help you get started with lousy English: Common Errors in English. Feel free to commit the errors covered in [...]
Analyzing Eggcorns and Snowclones, and Challenging Strunk and White looks at Language Log, a blog covering linguistic boo boos. My kind of place. The article talks of eggcorns, “a type of slip of the ear in which people mishear a word and mispronounce it, then insist that the malapropism is correct.” Maybe I’m obtuse, but I [...]

