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To: Lorianne

Bloomberg’s headline writer needs to learn the difference between “staunch” and “stanch”.


4 posted on 09/30/2016 2:47:22 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Billthedrill

Thank you for posting this correction. I’m constantly seeing it’s instead of its, your instead of you’re, etc., in articles written by so-called professional writers. The other day someone wrote “all for not” instead of “all for naught.”

Our schools have replaced grammar with literature.


8 posted on 09/30/2016 3:24:56 PM PDT by huckfillary
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To: Billthedrill

Stench works well too.


12 posted on 09/30/2016 4:00:44 PM PDT by COUNTrecount
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To: Billthedrill

I’ve been accused of being a grammar Nazi for pointing out that people who write for a living, or even public consumption, should know the meanings of the words they use, and how to put them together coherently. I won’t do that to you for pointing it out, because you’re right.


13 posted on 09/30/2016 4:11:12 PM PDT by Hardastarboard (This is the legacy of Hillary Clinton: Death, destruction, terrorism and weakness.)
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