Syntax Mugs

'I'm leaving you because of your constant anal nitpicking, which I can no longer put up with....wait...I mean... Up with which, I can no longer put.'

A Puppet Named Juan

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

My Bookshelf Before the Internet

A Copy Editor and His Dog

Punctuation Police

Someone who knows apostrophes

"You've got to learn about verbs. How else are you going to verbalize your feelings?

'The Questioner'

Freind: 'Misspelled, anything helps.'

'What amazes me most is that years ago I couldn't even spell teacher - now I are one!'

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

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

"Let's fall in love and live in the subjunctive."

'Here's something that should suit your wooden acting style. How do you fancy playing the lead in Pinocchio?'

Ice skater

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

'Who teaches apostrophe usage?'

'Curious how all four previous employers spelt 'exceptional' with just an 'x'.'

Lessons in Prehistory.

You can take the boy out of Wimbledon...

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

"Various entrances to the gates of Hell."

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

Shakespeare loved a grammar joke

"You have no idea what it's like to be a 'just between you and me' person in a 'just between you and I' world."

'Yes, grammar rules do evolve over time, but making up your own to 'stay ahead of the curve' won't work in this English class!'

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

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

'Second grade. When did you discover 'LMNOP' wasn't one letter?'

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

"Today I came across antiderenuclearizationalityness."

Martial Arts

Angler throwing his fly-book into the river for the fish