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Common Errors in English Usage Daily Entry: hors d’oeuvres: Common Errors in English Usage Entry for Thursday, May 21, 2015
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Common Errors in English Usage Daily Entry. The home for the Common Errors in English Usage e-calendar. Thursday, May 21, 2015. Hors d’oeuvres: Common Errors in English Usage Entry for Thursday, May 21, 2015. If you knew only a little French, you might interpret this phrase as meaning “out of work,” but in fact it means little snack foods served before or outside of ( hors. The main dishes of a meal (the oeuvres. Labels: Of Foreign Origin. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Enter your email address:.
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Common Errors in English Usage Daily Entry: refrain/restrain: Common Errors in English Usage Entry for Saturday, May 9, 2015
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Common Errors in English Usage Daily Entry. The home for the Common Errors in English Usage e-calendar. Saturday, May 9, 2015. Refrain/restrain: Common Errors in English Usage Entry for Saturday, May 9, 2015. This is the ten-year anniversary of the Common Errors in English Usage calendar. To celebrate, we are bringing back some of our favorite interesting, funny, but sometimes merely silly entries through the years before going on hiatus in 2016. Labels: Commonly Misused Expressions. Could care less/coul...
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Common Errors in English Usage Daily Entry: Wensday/Wednesday: Common Errors in English Usage Entry for Wednesday, May 13, 2015
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Common Errors in English Usage Daily Entry. The home for the Common Errors in English Usage e-calendar. Wednesday, May 13, 2015. Wensday/Wednesday: Common Errors in English Usage Entry for Wednesday, May 13, 2015. Wednesday was named after the Germanic god “Woden” (or “Wotan”). Almost no one pronounces this word’s middle syllable distinctly, but it’s important to remember the correct spelling in writing. Labels: Spelling and Style. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Enter your email address:. Hors dR...
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Common Errors in English Usage Daily Entry: carrot on a stick/the carrot or the stick: Common Errors in English Usage Entry for Saturday, May 16, 2015
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Common Errors in English Usage Daily Entry. The home for the Common Errors in English Usage e-calendar. Saturday, May 16, 2015. Carrot on a stick/the carrot or the stick: Common Errors in English Usage Entry for Saturday, May 16, 2015. Carrot on a stick/the carrot or the stick. Why not an apple on a stick, or a bag of oats? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Enter your email address:. Other Common Errors in English Usage Sites. Common Errors in English Usage—The Original Site. Inexact Words and Phrases.
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Common Errors in English Usage Daily Entry: patience/patients: Common Errors in English Usage Entry for Friday, May 15, 2015
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Common Errors in English Usage Daily Entry. The home for the Common Errors in English Usage e-calendar. Friday, May 15, 2015. Patience/patients: Common Errors in English Usage Entry for Friday, May 15, 2015. Doctors have patients, but while you’re waiting to see them you have to have patience. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Enter your email address:. Other Common Errors in English Usage Sites. Common Errors in English Usage—The Original Site. The Common Errors in English Usage Podcast. Could care le...
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Common Errors in English Usage Daily Entry: May 2015
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Common Errors in English Usage Daily Entry. The home for the Common Errors in English Usage e-calendar. Sunday, May 31, 2015. Dual/duel: Common Errors in English Usage Entry for Sunday, May 31, 2015. 8220;Dual” is an adjective describing the two-ness of something—dual carburetors, for instance. A “duel” is a formal battle intended to settle a dispute. Saturday, May 30, 2015. Flounder/founder: Common Errors in English Usage Entry for Saturday, May 30, 2015. Labels: Commonly Confused Expressions. This is t...
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Common Errors in English Usage Daily Entry: prejudice/prejudiced: Common Errors in English Usage Entry for Tuesday, May 19, 2015
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Common Errors in English Usage Daily Entry. The home for the Common Errors in English Usage e-calendar. Tuesday, May 19, 2015. Prejudice/prejudiced: Common Errors in English Usage Entry for Tuesday, May 19, 2015. People not only misspell “prejudice” in a number of ways, they sometimes say “he’s prejudice” when they mean “he’s prejudiced.”. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Enter your email address:. Other Common Errors in English Usage Sites. Common Errors in English Usage—The Original Site. Prejudice/...
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Common Errors in English Usage Daily Entry: ad nauseum/ad nauseam: Common Errors in English Usage Entry for Wednesday, May 20, 2015
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Common Errors in English Usage Daily Entry. The home for the Common Errors in English Usage e-calendar. Wednesday, May 20, 2015. Ad nauseum/ad nauseam: Common Errors in English Usage Entry for Wednesday, May 20, 2015. Seeing how often ad nauseam. Is misspelled makes some people want to throw up. English writers also often mistakenly half-translate the phrase as ad nausea. This Latin phrase comes from a term in logic, the argumentum ad nauseam. Labels: Of Foreign Origin. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Common Errors in English Usage Daily Entry: sowcow/salchow: Common Errors in English Usage Entry for Thursday, May 14, 2015
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Common Errors in English Usage Daily Entry. The home for the Common Errors in English Usage e-calendar. Thursday, May 14, 2015. Sowcow/salchow: Common Errors in English Usage Entry for Thursday, May 14, 2015. There’s a fancy turning jump in ice skating named after Swedish figure skater Ulrich Salchow, but every Winter Olympics millions of people think they hear the commentators saying “sowcow” and that’s how they proceed to misspell it. Labels: Spelling and Style. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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