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Grammar Cop: Illegal Substitution

Defendant: Luis C., Miami

Count 1: Aggravated homonym.

Count 2: Grammatical malfeasance committed in the act of demanding reduced schooling.

Report: Officer was called to Facebook to investigate an absolutely ludicrous premise for a national holiday when he accidentally stumbled upon the offense. Offence was captured without incident, processed and released on its own recognizance.

Fine: $112 and a three-second lecture about the usefulness of Facebook petitions.

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Can't believe you're letting them slide on three counts of Willful Disregard of the Space Bar: "Super Bowl" is two words.

Posted by: Rob in Denver | February 20, 2008 1:57 PM

And it's the Super Bowl, not a superb owl.

Posted by: Bill Walsh | February 20, 2008 6:27 PM

Eek! Just earlier today, in reviewing something I wrote several days ago, I found that I made this same mistake (using 'their' for 'there'). It was an accident -- I didn't intend to find my mistake... I mean, I didn't intend to make that mistake. I was in a rush when I wrote it. Everything else was grammatically (and in every other way) correct -- at least as far as I know.

Please forgive me.

Posted by: Alexander | February 20, 2008 6:57 PM

Thank you, Rob in Denver, for pointing out the space bar neglect. I'd like to add failure to use commas, a hyphen, and random capitalization to the list of charges.

Posted by: Annie | February 21, 2008 2:10 PM

hats off to you - could you perhaps arrest my colleague who yesterday asked 'what's the plural of criteria?'
Nice to see that the colonials are still using the correct spelling of 'Offence' too, even if a little inconsistently...

toodle pip!

Posted by: kate | February 23, 2008 3:53 PM

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