Archives for: August 2009

Eggheads

by Miss Grammar Lady Email

When you mean to use "yoke" to refer to something burdening or controlling a person, do not spell it "yolk," which is the yellow part of an egg. An example of this common mistake can be seen in the comment I quoted here.

Involuntary Excretions

by Miss Grammar Lady Email

I'm going to give this commenter the benefit of the doubt and hope he meant "execrable" instead of "excretable" in this passage:

In fact, graying hipsters telling 20-somethings how excretable ABBA or Pat Benatar or ELO was just drives them a bit further to load those tunes up on their iPODs.

Of course, many people considered the output of the above-named artists to be comparable to feces, so perhaps "excretable" was carefully chosen after all.