Been on vacation. Sorry for the wait.
Any wordies out there who haven't read William Safire's "On Language" column? It runs every Sunday in The New York Times Magazine. I enjoyed Sunday's piece on the word "of." I especially liked the last section, in which the columnist reminds us that "could've" is short for "could have," not "could of." I see the latter all the time in student work. Spell checker won't catch that mistake, people.
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I've seen that one. What about using "your" instead of "you're" when the writer is trying to shorten "you are"? I saw that recently.
Did you see the article a while back in the Sunday NYT about Creationist geologists? It was hilarious and a little scary.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/25/magazine/25wwln-geologists-t.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=geology+and+creationism&oref=slogin
Reader1 -- I did see that article. It's hard to believe.
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