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SI Grammar and Spelling Lab
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4261After Amy Winehouse' death, I was looking through links about the 27 club anStan17/26/2011
4260 A 5% chance of a one-in-a-million word June 30, 2011 in English, et ceteTimF-7/26/2011
4259Wisconsin Sign Spelling Fail youtube.comTimF17/26/2011
4258This one had me laughing the most. Even the replies were not as funny as the staStan-7/21/2011
4257Some really good ones in there. Thanks.Cogito-7/21/2011
4256The best obnoxious responses to misspellings on Facebook happyplace.comTom Clarke-7/21/2011
4255Agreed. They look like idiots wearing earmuffs.Stan-7/15/2011
4254Yes, I understand the need for such things in straight text environments. But tCogito-7/15/2011
4253<i>Now, let's talk about the use of asterisks for emphasis.</i> Stan-7/15/2011
4252>>Gray is a color. Grey is a *colour*.<< Great. I'm glad we&#Cogito-7/15/2011
4251The Difference Between Gray and Grey Album Cover: Black Holes and Revelations &TimF-7/15/2011
4250is Capitalization REALLY all that necessary?one_less17/13/2011
4249I think the sentences can look fine either way, but doing it one way sometimes aCogito-7/6/2011
4248Not having the last comma makes sentences look a little stilted and awkward.Tom Clarke-7/6/2011
4247I completely disagree. The serial comma doesn't make sentences look clutterCogito-7/6/2011
4246I like the Oxford comma, had no idea I was being smug pedant. Didn't even knTom Clarke17/6/2011
42453 Famous Commas 1. THE FATAL COMMA Czarina Maria Fyodorovna once saved the lifeTom Clarke-7/4/2011
4244Fun book: Try commas on this sentence: Eats Shoots & LeavesSmoothSail-7/4/2011
4243Expulsion point 1 July 2011 · 9:02 am · Almost Yogurt You may remembeTom Clarke-7/3/2011
4242Sounds good. I thought of another word that I hardly hear - merry. You'd thiStan-5/23/2011
4241That's it! If 'blessed' is falling into disfavor it's news to mManyMoose-5/23/2011
4240You're thinking of the Parallel Bible. The one I use has these four, King JaStan-5/23/2011
4239One time I had access to a bible that was composed of four different translationManyMoose-5/23/2011
4238sfgate.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- KinKitskid-5/23/2011
4237Apparently the editor caught the Malaprop because it now reads (quite correctly)ManyMoose-5/8/2011
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