Today’s fun with headlines …
The Buffalo New York newspaper, BusinessFirst, ran this news headline:
“Sotomayor praised for balance”
(click here for the real story)
What comes to your mind?
Here’s what came to ours:
Posted in General, GrammarGag Reel (fun stuff), tagged confusion, English, fun, grammar, headline, language, news, newspaper, Sonia Sotomayor, Sotomayor praised for balance, usage, words, writing on August 7, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Today’s fun with headlines …
The Buffalo New York newspaper, BusinessFirst, ran this news headline:
“Sotomayor praised for balance”
(click here for the real story)
What comes to your mind?
Here’s what came to ours:
Posted in General, GrammarGag Reel (fun stuff), tagged American-Statesman, Austin, Bank of America, BofA, branches, confusion, cut, English, fun, grammar, headline, language, news, newspaper, Texas, usage, words, writing on August 4, 2009| 1 Comment »
We read this headline last week in the business section of the Austin American-Statesman newspaper:
“Bank of America to cut branches”
(click here for the real story)
What comes to your mind?
Here’s what came to ours:
Too bad money doesn’t grow on trees!
Posted in General, GrammarGag Reel (fun stuff), tagged confusion, dance, English, fun, grammar, headline, Judge, kabuki, language, news, newspaper, selection, Sonia Sotomayor, supreme court, usage, Wall Street Journal, words, writing on July 17, 2009| Leave a Comment »
More fun with headlines …
Today, The Wall Street Journal ran this news headline:
“The Supreme Court Kabuki Dance: The ritual of choosing a justice has a long history of fictions and evasions“
(click here for the real story)
What comes to your mind?
Here’s what came to ours:
Posted in General, GrammarGag Reel (fun stuff), tagged brown, confusion, English, fun, grammar, headline, language, minister, newspaper, quits, smear, tweet, TwitPic, twitter, usage, words on June 12, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Fun with headlines today … this one came to us via a Twitter Tweet with a TwitPic:
“MINISTER QUITS OVER BROWN ‘SMEARS'”
(click here to see the original TwitPic)
What comes to your mind?
Here’s what came to ours:
Posted in General, GrammarGag Reel (fun stuff), tagged buy, confusion, English, fun, grammar, headline, language, news, newspaper, purchase, Roger Penske, saturn, usage, words on June 6, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Fun with headlines today …
This one is all over the news:
“Roger Penske buys Saturn”
(click here for the real story)
What comes to your mind?
Here’s what came to ours:
Posted in General, Tips, tagged American-Statesman, Austin, Burnet, Central Texas, confusion, Coyote, Del Valle, Elgin, English, friends, fun, Govalle, grammar, Guadalupe, how you say it, Koenig, language, Llano, Manchaca, Manor, newspaper, normal, Pedernales, Poinsettia, pronunciation, statesman, Texas, texspeak, usage, vocabulary, words on June 2, 2009| 1 Comment »
… in Central Texas y’all!
This is a excerpt from the Austin American-Statesman newspaper some 15 years ago. We just came across it again and thought this to be a great blog post topic, especially for some of our friends who are new to the Austin area.
Here are a few of the most common Central Texas pronunciations followed by what some maintain are the correct ways to say them:
Enjoy the Texspeak y’all!!!
Posted in General, GrammarGag Reel (fun stuff), tagged bake, confusion, English, fun, grammar, headline, language, local, Michigan, news, newspaper, Port Huron, sale, support, Times Herald, usage, words, yard on May 31, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Today, this local news headline ran in the Port Huron (Michigan) Times Herald newspaper:
“Yard and bake sale to support marching band”
(click here for the real story)
What comes to your mind?
Here’s what came to ours:
Posted in General, GrammarGag Reel (fun stuff), tagged Capital-Journal, confusion, English, fun, future, graduate, grammar, headline, Kansas, language, news, newspaper, note, Topeka, usage, words on May 27, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Today, a Topeka (Kansas) Capital-Journal newspaper headline reads:
“Future graduates take note”
(click here for the real story)
What comes to your mind?
Here’s what came to ours:
Posted in General, GrammarGag Reel (fun stuff), tagged aircraft, carrier, fun, grammar, headline, Josh Wheeland, language, Memorial Day, military, news, newspaper, Pennsylvania, sailor, sea, ship, Sun-Gazette, U.S., United States, usage, Williamsport, words on May 25, 2009| Leave a Comment »
This Memorial Day headline appears in a Pennsylvania newspaper, the Williamsport Sun-Gazette:
“Sailor sees World aboard aircraft carrier…”
(click here for the real story)
What comes to your mind?
Here’s what came to ours:
Seriously, though, thanks to Josh Wheeland and all of our US Military, past, present and future, for defending our country!
Posted in General, Vocabulary Builders, tagged advertisement, antonym, Capital-Journal, confusion, constipated, definition, grammar, hair, irregular, language, newspaper, opposite, question, regular, splitting, Topeka, usage, vocabulary, words on May 25, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Well, we may be doing just that with our question:
What is a “Regular” Hair Cut?
We found this ad in The Topeka Capital-Journal (Kansas newspaper):
So, again, we ask, “what is a ‘regular’ hair cut?”
When we searched for antonyms (opposites) of “regular,” our sources gave us two choices: “irregular,” and “constipated.”
Yikes, we don’t like either of these images when it comes to hair cuts. Maybe, without a “regular” hair cut, one might have a bad hair day?
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