Grammar I
Occasionally, I'll be posting my grammatical pet peeves; common mistakes that I think should be avoided. Here are three:
- When two ideas or people seem to work well together, they jibe -- they do not jive.
- When you change course, you take a new tack -- not a new tact. It's a sailing term.
- When you address your Christmas card to my family, it's The Joneses -- not The Jones' or The Jones's or, my personal favorite, The Jones.
posted by tony at 3:15 PM
12 Comments:
dear mr. jones, you had better change your tact or i shall not jive with you! :)
thanks for the lesson tony!
so ... a few days ago i read something that said 'it's a deep seeded fear ...'
i always thought it was 'deep seated'.
can you help me, mr. grammar man??
tammy@theooze.com
What article did you read it in? I'm curious too.
I found the answer- it should be deep-seated, not seeded. I think I made the mistake in an article I recently wrote.
Brian
Amen, Marko!
I work for the Billy Graham *Evangelistic* Association, *not* the Billy Graham Evangelical Association.
Sheesh about it!
--Steve K.
i read 'deep-seeded' on a power point slide at our yearly employee education day at the hospital.
tammy
oh,oh,oh....can I play??????
how about when people try to pluralize the word "sheep" or use the word "shit" in the past tense.
Example: Those sheeps over there shat on my lawn.
but, now who created those grammar laws? i for one like to say the word shat-it works for me.
Seems you might be experiencing some residual bondage to modernist language boundaries.
OR what about when people say "religions" and they really mean denominations i.e. My religion is Methodist or Baptist etc.
Methodius
How 'bout the all-too-common conflation of "irrespective" and "regardless"? I had a buddy in college who would do things "irregardless" of this or that.
When two ideas or people seem to work well together, they jibe -- they do not jive.
When two people seem to dance well together, they jive. Witness me and my wife.
Tim K.
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