'Etymology'

While you take in hand to school others, and to teach them by what name a whale-fish is to be called in our tongue, leaving out, through ignorance, the letter H, which almost alone maketh up the signification of the word, you deliver that which is not true.

- Richard Hackluyt*, Principal Navigations (in Melville, Moby-Dick: 'Etymology - Supplied by a Late Consumptive Usher to a Grammar School')

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* wonderfully misspelled by Melville, in all his sanctimony

Importance of grammatical accuracy

'Thinking cannot be done without words.'

Therefore, grammar.

Bejaysus.

Actual Grammar Nazis...

[from The Daily Dot, via Andrey Belopopsky]

An April Fool(!)

Mae Dappersonne introduces Penguin Now!, a new range of classic novels grammatically updated for 2014.

Should Penguin Now! prove a success, the team are looking into replacing the traditional ? with a more contemporary :/

[With thanks to Alexandra Coghlan]

They don't write 'em like that any more!

And God sayeth

God ‏@TheTweetOfGod13h

People who brag about being politically incorrect tend to also be morally, ethically, factually, and grammatically incorrect.

Emphasis mine. (Yes, I'm editing God now.)

The shit

[With thanks to FM.]

Blog-jammin'

[No kidding: this is what came up when I tried to log in to this site at work]

Access Denied This Page is Blocked
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[I mean, it's not even grammatically accurate!]