Pondering Grammar

By request, I am going to address one of the most common errors people make when they are writing.  These three words are frequently mixed up and misused – two, to, and too.  Two is perhaps less mistreated than the other two.  (See how I used it correctly there?)  From my observations of online forums… Read more

I’ve been wanting to write about this little annoyance for a few weeks now.  I hear it all the time and bite my tongue to keep from correcting everyone.  Many people use the word whelp when they mean welt. A whelp is a puppy or cub.  To whelp is to give birth.  I believe dog… Read more

Many words are often misused or confused with others that are similar.  Some of these are seen often on the internet – social sites, blogs, forums, etc. (By the way, sites is one of those words).  Site is used for a website or a work site; whereas, one cites a reference in a paper or… Read more

One of my greatest pet peeves is people leaving out the “to be” verb when they speak.  They may say, “It needs washed,” or “The dog needs walked.”  It looks and sounds so wrong, but I hear it often in Oklahoma.  I wonder if this is a regional tendency, or whether people in other parts of the… Read more

This is my first attempt at writing a blog.  I wanted a place to express my frustrations with the seeming degredation of the English language.  Every day, I hear people misuse words and sentence structures.  Signs with grammatical or punctuation errors make me cringe!  I certainly do not claim to have perfect grammar, but my mother drilled… Read more