Call myself a grammar pedant?
It should be "makes me wince as much as it does the next grammar pedant"
but that just sounds ridiculous, does it not?
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From: "Petra Liverani" <petral@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: 29/08/2018 9:23:40 PM
Subject: Re: atw: A mug's game
"Could of" makes me wince as much as the next grammar pedant but I think it's unfortunate that it seems to suggest things about a person when it means so little. I have a friend who writes "could of" and occasionally inserts an apostrophe before the s in a plural (I find that one slightly fascinating). An amazing person, she's a mother of four, including two young children, who founded and was key organiser of two groups: one that stopped AGL's gas expansion in Western Sydney and the other that stopped the waste-to-energy incinerator in Eastern Creek.
Regards,
Petra
------ Original Message ------
From: "John Maizels" <john@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: 29/08/2018 3:59:37 PM
Subject: atw: A mug's game
Wednesday humour. Very un-PC, but I want one.
https://www.wickedgoodbookstore.com/products/wgb-grammar-mug
<https://www.wickedgoodbookstore.com/products/wgb-grammar-mug>Also, floating around Facebook there is a photo of a pre-production version that has a typo. That's almost more desirable.
John
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