Syntax Enthusiast Prints

Here lays John Spinks - Scholar and Pedant who fought and lost his last battle against misuse of 'Lay' a transitive verb.

"Is this the grammar lover's club?"

Editor. Out of office - Taking (sic) day.

News. Editor. Like it? It's a new punctuation mark I invented!

"Don't split your infinitives with me, squire!"

"Be or be not. There is no question."

Someone who knows apostrophes

Man packing suitcase with French vocabulary

"We've decided that it will be better for his later development if we speak to him only in legalese."

'I've been called some mean things as a baby boomer, but 'Pig in the Python' really hurts.'

"Oh, look- French! Let's try it."

'The definition of OBSOLETE: old fashioned dictionaries.'

The Family Joules: Part 21

'Whoooa,MAN,check out this STORM! It's PELTING down!'

Lessons in Prehistory.

"Sorry I'm late. I overslept." "Is that even a real word?"

'Amscray,fuzzbrain - no carnivores allowed

"I know! I know! I K-n-o-w!. . . Um, what was the question?"

Desert $2.75. See? -- It wasn't a typo.

'Stick them up...'

Contemporary English Lesson: The Cat was Sat on the Mat.

Henry the amazing talking dog.

"You can use the alphabet to text. You can use the alphabet to tweet. Why can't you use the alphabet to spell?"

Harv's general clumsiness with prepositions comes back to haunt him.

'This is the fun part...waiting to find out just what we've ordered.

'I hope you ain't got no tax up here!'

'Mom and dad...if someone threw a rock at me, it would really be like killing two birds with one stone.' 'I told you if we had a child, he'd be a wise-quacker.'

'I made a hundred on the Spanish test. Gracias.'

'I'm afraid it wouldn't work out, Kevin. You say 'data is' and I say 'data are'.'

"Today I came across antiderenuclearizationalityness."

Say it with flowers - available in any language.

Ironing Punctuation

Two vending machines for fisherman: 'Live Bait' next to 'Dead as a Doornail Bait'

His Hers Pers Vis Xyrs Hirs TBD

Raphnrrf? Raphnrrf? Umpha? Frfee? Maamr? Pick.