Beth Fine

I’ve heard of the Secret Police, Thought Police, Language Police and Fashion Police, but I had no idea there was an underground squad of Punctuation Police! My son-in-law follows and even posted to a site called Apostrophe Catastrophes where ordinary people upload photos of blatant apostrophe misuse. Check it out—http://www.apostrophecatastrophes.com/ Alas, in todays’ world w’hen […]

Bar none, my biggest pet peeve is the Misuse of the Nominative, Objective, and Possessive Cases, especially coming from those who should know better! A day rarely goes by that I don’t hear pronoun misuses emitting from professional communicators (newsmen, commentators, radio talk show hosts, and preachers). Their misspeaks continue to surprise me. Surely, these […]