Entertaining writing blunders, curiosities, and language laughs.
The problem with social media is that, if you fail to engage the services of a native Engish proofreader, many of your mistakes are there for the world to see. Fortunately, quite often these mistakes have hilarious consequences, as these funny Facebook spelling mistakes prove.
Warning: If you are easily offended, give this post a miss. Our post on lame excuses for Facebook mistakes is a little tamer.
If you’re learning English and want some fun ways to master vocabulary and grammar, our preposition games offer you an ideal way to explore language and get to grips with the basics. In this post, we present two interesting games that can be used to learn about the common prepositions that are used in the English language, while also hopefully having a bit of fun. Who said learning English was boring?
Welcome to the ten commandments of writing a great essay.
You’d better take a pew and listen very carefully.
I say onto you that I have visited the promised land of Exceptional Grades. As I was tempted to coast through the Valley of Scrape-By, a voice spake with me and bade me to listen, for he had knowledge to share.
The celestial power handed down these ten rules for writing a great essay, and I present them to you, my brothers and sisters. Follow them all, or you shall perish in the hell of infernal bad grades (failing that, you can hire an essay editor!)
(No offense intended to the author of the original Ten Commandments.)
Today is National Grammar Day in the USA and we thought we would celebrate the occasion by taking a quick look at some of the most common grammar mistakes that our editors and proofreaders come across. Think your grammar is perfect? Let’s start with a quick test.
One good editor at the Toronto Star took matters into his own hands last year when the newspaper announced that they would be outsourcing over 100 sub-editing, proofreading and editing jobs. Here was his response to the internal memo announcing the planned job cuts.
Punctuation is not really that important, right? WRONG! It’s very important, and a tiny, misplaced comma or question mark can cost millions of dollars or break someone’s heart. That’s why using native English proofreading services before publishing your work is so important.
Not convinced?
Take a look at some of these great examples of punctuation mistakes. If you didn’t previously recognize the importance of punctuation, you will after seeing these!
Cockney Rhyming Slang is a part of the English language that many English learners may not be familiar with. In English, a slang word is a word that isn’t really considered to be standard English but is something that many people continue to use nonetheless.
Cockney rhyming slang first started to appear on the streets of the East End of London during the 19th century and was primarily used as a secret language through which criminals could communicate with one another without being understood by the police. However, despite its origins, it has remained popular with all people in that area of the country and is still very much in use today. People who use these slang expressions generally substitute one word with two or more words that rhyme with the original word to speak in some type of code. Only people who are familiar with Cockney Rhyming Slang would be able to truly understand what the person is actually talking about.
Confused? Let’s have a bit of fun.
I was lucky enough to see Mariah Carey live on stage at the Singapore Grand Prix last night. However, I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw her in this T-shirt:
We love receiving links to funny bloopers. These funny restaurant signs were sent in from a professor of English who uses them in her class.
The following funny restaurant and hotel signs are real. We think the people who wrote these are in desperate need of our professional proofreading services!
P.S. If you like these, you’ll love our President Bush Bloopers.
These funny President Bush bloopers prove that we all make mistakes. Can you believe he said some of this stuff though?
If you like these, you’ll love our reasons why proofreading is important.
