Baby Name Wizard Gifts

'I already have four girls. If it's a girl we'll name her Sue. If it's a boy we'll name him Hooray.'

"In the first place, it isn't "maddening crowd.' It's 'madding crowd.' "

'My penmanship has really improved since I got a laser printer.'

Ed Flanders, Deconstruction Worker

Solicitor speaks legal jargon and has a translator who tells client: 'You haven't a hope!'

I will study my speling words...

"You're going to hate yourself."

"Bah, I could've written a better dénouement in my sleep."

"Bad dog! I've told you to always proofread."

"How is it that someone who reads all the Harry Potter books still doesn't know the magic word?"

Kid in class corrects teachers spelling.

"My novel is not a doorstop!"

Restaurant Francais: All you can pronounce £30.

Harry Potter learns some 'new tricks' on his first day enrolled in a public school.

Miss, how do you spell "acceptable"? I've Googled every "e" and can't find it.

Freind: 'Misspelled, anything helps.'

'Roget it's fantastic, superb, extraordinary...where on earth did you get the idea?'

" 'Grrr' is not a word."

"Better than a business model, I have a business scheme."

"He's sworn never to say Boudicca, ShrOwsbury, whoM, or narrative."

"I know its hard to believe right now, Lawrence, but some day you'll thank me for asking you to punctuate your sentences correctly."

"No sweetie, it’s a beurk not a book."

"It's a play on words."

The Family Joules: Part 21

Ninedency: A budding tendency

Conflating Science and Grammar. The boy threw the ball. What grammatical role does "ball" play in this sentence? An object in motion!

"My preferred pronoun is they."

So I'm "cheap." It's a perfectly good word. And it aptly describes my interest in conserving resources. I suppose we could call you "thrifty." Heavens no! And waste two whole letters? I see we've only wasted one whole tea bag.

'The definition of OBSOLETE: old fashioned dictionaries.'

Woman holds report: 'This has so many different fonts in it, I thougt it was a ransom note.'

'Reading, writing and arithmetic are important, Kevin. You need to know them so you can Blog.'

'He's written some great slogans and some great labels, but he's never written a great coupon.'

'I swear by my spell checker. I have a mental block for spelling. Even 'Hooqued on Foniks' didn't help.'

"What's a nine-letter word for biotechnology?"

Thesaurus Publishing: Out, Not here, Gone, Absent.