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Lanny Heidbreder
@usage
Grammar, spelling, pronunciation, and other English usage issues with a minimum of pretension and maxima of opinion and snark
Jonesboro, Arkansas
Joined March 2009
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Lanny Heidbreder
@usage
almost 15 years ago
Dear lord, people: "Phenomenon" is singular; "Phenomena" is plural. And that "Mahna Mahna" joke you're about to make is idiotic. Shut up.
Lanny Heidbreder
@usage
over 15 years ago
You'll never go wrong by never using the word "proverbial". It's idiotic when misused and superfluous when used correctly.
Lanny Heidbreder
@usage
almost 16 years ago
The poem is called “Jabberwocky”, but the monster was just the “Jabberwock”.
Lanny Heidbreder
@usage
almost 16 years ago
“In your best interests” is clearly generally preferred to “In your best interest”, but I rather prefer the latter. Is either more correct?
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Lanny Heidbreder
@usage
about 16 years ago
I'm disappointed to learn that nouns functioning as adjectives are not, as I believed, considered a special kind of adjective.
Lanny Heidbreder
@usage
about 16 years ago
Note to self: Start using "millionnaire" instead of "millionaire". It doesn't hurt anyone and it's oh-so-slightly more intelligent.
Lanny Heidbreder
@usage
about 16 years ago
I like split infinitives, but I don't like Star Trek’s. “To go boldly” is a better contrast to “where no one has [even] gone before”.
Lanny Heidbreder
@usage
about 16 years ago
Verses are parts of a song. “Versus” means “against”. “Apple versus Adobe”, not “Apple verses Adobe”.
Lanny Heidbreder
@usage
about 16 years ago
It occurs to me now that I've been using “web site” — with a lowercase ‘w’ — this whole time. That's the worst possible option.
Lanny Heidbreder
@usage
about 16 years ago
The
@APStylebook
and
@gruber
have both ditched "Web site" for "website". I guess it's time for me to do the same. http://is.gd/bwqBd
Lanny Heidbreder
@usage
about 16 years ago
The previous tweet was posted to the wrong account. Sorry about that.
Lanny Heidbreder
@usage
about 16 years ago
@GregPfister
I don't exactly worry about it. If "agenda" didn't obviously sound like other snooty plural nouns, I wouldn't even think of it.
Lanny Heidbreder
@usage
about 16 years ago
@GregPfister
I should've said "WAS plural". An agendum is a to-do; agenda are many to-dos. Over time, "agenda" came to mean the list itself.
Lanny Heidbreder
@usage
about 16 years ago
I recently had a revelation: "Agenda" is plural. Now I have a hard time writing e-mails to corporate douches that sound right to both of us.
Lanny Heidbreder
@usage
over 16 years ago
I just saw a commercial brag that its product was “ALL all-natural”. I choose to believe that it was making fun of meaningless buzzwords.
Lanny Heidbreder
@usage
over 16 years ago
“With his neat, scraped back hair, Bosman, now 56, is enthusiastic….” That sentence could use a discretionary hyphen. http://is.gd/5ULme
Lanny Heidbreder
@usage
over 16 years ago
Interestingly enough, using the “[adverb] enough” construction makes you sound like an idiot. Stop doing that.
Lanny Heidbreder
@usage
over 16 years ago
“All-Star Team” makes sense, since it its members are all stars. “All-State”, “All-Region”, and the like do not make quite so much sense.
Lanny Heidbreder
@usage
over 16 years ago
If using the word “proverbial” should strike your fancy, please take my advice: Ignore your fancy at all cost.
Lanny Heidbreder
@usage
over 16 years ago
Any English teacher who teaches against redundancy but also uses “Compare and contrast” in his essay prompts is a hypocrite.
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