Recent Comments

1. about 9 years ago on Get Fuzzy

   “…you have seen FARTHER…” Further is an adjective. The two are not interchangeable.!! AN D there is no such word as “furthest.”

2. about 9 years ago on B.C.

   “How much FARTHER?” Further is an adjective, as in “further destruction of the English language is the fault of the internet.”

3. about 9 years ago on F Minus

   Should that not read “henchperson?”

4. about 9 years ago on B.C.

   “Magi” is plural. Should read “magus.”

5. about 9 years ago on Committed

   What exactly are they laying together? Eggs or something? Lay and lie are not interchangeable, even for the sake of this joke.

6. over 9 years ago on The Argyle Sweater

   There is no such word as “alright,” or at least there didn’t used to be such. I guess maybe today there is, though, thanks to the mass stupidity perpetrated by the internet.

7. over 9 years ago on Dilbert Classics

   A group of parents IS…………… group is the singular subject, not parents. This kind of mistake is taking over all over the place, thanks to the internet. It is just plain wrong.

8. over 9 years ago on Momma

   “loan” is not a verb!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

9. over 9 years ago on Bad Reporter

   Tsk tsk. Bad Reporter doesn’t write English. Neither set of parents IS black. Happens all the time. The worst offender is whoever writes the synopses (plural) on TV guide. It’s always "a family of four WERE or “the team HAVE.” Bad…

10. over 9 years ago on Raising Duncan

    LIE down, not lay. Geez can’t anybody ever get those two verbs right? Years ago the dean where I was teaching said “we just don’t have that kind of money laying around.” The groan from the assembled faculty was heard out in the corridor.