It’s back … fun with headlines!
Spotted (ha ha) today in wikiHow:
How to Make Luggage Easier to Spot
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What comes to your mind?
Here’s what came to ours:
Posted in General, GrammarGag Reel (fun stuff), GrammarGarnish (wordplay), tagged confusion, English, grammar, language, luggage, spot, usage, Web, wikiHow, words, writing on November 24, 2009| Leave a Comment »
It’s back … fun with headlines!
Spotted (ha ha) today in wikiHow:
How to Make Luggage Easier to Spot
(click here for the real story)
What comes to your mind?
Here’s what came to ours:
Posted in General, PunctuationPerils, Tips, tagged confusion, correct, dash, definition, editing, en, English, grammar, hyphen, language, mistake, punctuation, sentence, usage, use, wikiHow, words, writing on September 20, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Normally, we don’t cross-post. However, here is an exception.
We poke fun at so many wikiHow entries that we thought it only fair to call upon a well-written and grammar-related post from its:
Home > Categories > Education and Communications > Subjects > English > English Grammar > Punctuation section.
Enjoy the following:
Source: wikiHow.com
Posted in General, GrammarGag Reel (fun stuff), tagged chicken, confusion, drum, drumstick, English, flavor finder, fun, grammar, headline, Ice Cream, language, Nestle, scream, sticks, turkey, usage, Web, wikiHow, words on July 11, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Fun with headlines today …
An iGoogle wikiHow headline reads:
“How to Choose Drumsticks”
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What comes to your mind?
Here’s what came to ours:
We suggest using the “Flavor Finder” to choose your drumsticks! Yummy.
Posted in General, GrammarGag Reel (fun stuff), tagged break, confusion, English, fun, grammar, headline, into, language, photojournalism, usage, Web, wikiHow, words on June 27, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Weekend fun with headlines …
Today, an iGoogle wikiHow article is entitled:
“How to Break Into Photojournalism”
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What comes to your mind?
Here’s what came to ours:
Posted in General, GrammarGag Reel (fun stuff), tagged confusion, definition, dictionary, English, fast, fix, fixin', fun, grammar, headline, iGoogle, language, noun, object, slow, southspeak, toilet, usage, verb, vocabulary, wikiHow, words on June 17, 2009| Leave a Comment »
We chuckled when we saw this wikiHow title on iGoogle:
“How to Fix a Slow Toilet”
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What comes to your mind?
Here’s what came to ours:
So, here we go with our word of the day:
fix. verb (used with object)
fix. verb (used without object)
By the way, we’re fixin’ to do a whole blog post on this and related southspeak. Stay tuned.
fix. noun
fix. Verb phrases
fix. Idioms
Source: dictionary.com
Posted in General, GrammarGag Reel (fun stuff), Vocabulary Builders, tagged bird, confusion, definition, dictionary, English, feeder, fish, fun, grammar, headline, how to, hummingbird, iGoogle, language, noun, object, perch, usage, verb, vocabulary, wikiHow, words on June 15, 2009| Leave a Comment »
One of today’s iGoogle wikiHow To listings is:
“How to Make Perches for a Hummingbird Feeder”
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What comes to your mind?
Here’s what came to ours:
So, here’s our word of the day:
perch. noun.
perch. verb (used without object)
perch. verb (used with object)
perch. noun, plural (especially collectively) perch, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) perch⋅es.
Source: dictionary.com
Posted in General, GrammarGag Reel (fun stuff), tagged confusion, cook, English, fun, grammar, headline, how to, language, make, microwave, nuclear, paddy, rice, usage, wikiHow, words on June 10, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Recently, in celebration of the Day of the Rice God, this interesting wikiHow was featured on iGoogle:
“How to Make Rice in the Microwave”
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What comes to your mind?
Here’s what came to ours:
We suggest: “How to Cook Rice in the Microwave”
Posted in General, GrammarGag Reel (fun stuff), tagged artist, con, confusion, English, fun, grammar, headline, language, spot, title, usage, wikiHow, words on May 30, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Another “funny” from the wikiHow list:
“How to Spot a Con Artist”
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What comes to your mind?
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Posted in General, GrammarGag Reel (fun stuff), tagged characters, chef, chicken, confusion, cook, English, fun, grammar, headline, keyboard, language, usage, wikiHow, words on May 30, 2009| Leave a Comment »
More fun with headlines …
Today, we found an interesting WikiHow article entitled:
“How to Make a Chicken by Typing Characters on Your Keyboard”
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What comes to your mind?
Here’s what came to ours:
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