‘They were friends of Antony and I.’ Ouch!
Why is it wrong? Well, just try taking the word ‘Antony’ away in the quote above. You’d never say ‘They were friends of I’, would you? It should be ‘mine’ […]
grammar
Is ‘you’re’ in the sign right or wrong? Or ‘Apostrophes and how to use them’
Are you one of the thousands of people who don’t know that ‘you’re’ in the sign in the photo is wrong? Because yes, it is wrong. It should be ‘your’. […]
‘Gaol’ or ‘jail’? I know which one I prefer…
A friend asked my opinion on the spelling of ‘gaol’ rather than ‘jail’. She said her teacher at school went ballistic if anyone spelt the word ‘jail’. Now we all […]
Choomuhrik? Really, Jamie?
Don’t get me wrong, I love Jamie Oliver. Not just for his recipes. For how great he is, especially for his campaign to improve the quality of school dinners in […]
‘Less chairs’ or ‘fewer chairs’?
A couple of people have asked me what I think about the use of ‘less’ when – according to them – it should be ‘fewer’. For example, if someone says […]
‘Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance’ – Johnson (Samuel, not Boris)
Samuel Johnson, renowned man of letters in the eighteenth century, wrote, almost single-handed, the first great reliable dictionary of English. It was published in 1755 by a consortium of printers, […]