Sunday, July 5, 2009

Self Aggrandizement

I love it when fellow language bloggers whom I admire (you know, the ones who are not only good, but also had enough smarts to specialize, like Lowercase L and Unnecessary Quotation Marks) post the stuff I submit to them.

Saturday, July 4, 2009

Friday, July 3, 2009

Razr's

It's an odd name, but the plural is just "Razrs".

Babies Closet

Unless we're talking about a closet where babies are kept, there needs to be an apostrophe at the end of "babies". I just can't help but wonder if they meant "baby's". I guess we'll never know, but this apostrophe catastrophe will do for now.

Thursday, July 2, 2009

untill?


Usage Note: Till and until are generally interchangeable in both writing and speech, though as the first word in a sentence until is usually preferred: Until you get that paper written, don't even think about going to the movies. · Till is actually the older word, with until having been formed by the addition to it of the prefix un-, meaning "up to." In the 18th century the spelling 'till became fashionable, as if till were a shortened form of until. Although 'till is now nonstandard, 'til is sometimes used in this way and is considered acceptable, though it is etymologically incorrect. (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/till)

I'm glad I looked that up, because it's always confused me. But I knew enough to know that "untill" is totally wrong.