Tag: Commas

• Slang Ban, Thank You Ma’am!

  

  As if a truckload of horsehit about a 50p piece being bereft of an Oxford comma wasn’t enough, a linguistics expert from some august institution has broached the subject of whether schools should ban the use of street slang such as peng and bruv. Apparently, teachers are correcting students’ use of street argot in classes…

  Max Frances

  Jan 31, 2020

  Schools, Society, Writing

  Brexit 50p, Commas, Communication, Education, English, Equality, Identity, Language, Linguistics, Punctuation, Schools, Slang, Teaching

• Let’s Eat, Grandma…

  

  While we appear to be teetering on the edge of World War III (or at least that’s what you might be led to believe from certain online sources), I have been grappling with a far greater foe. English grammar. Now, I’ve always been somewhat a stickler for grammatical rules. And I’ve previously written in an…

  Max Frances

  Jan 6, 2020

  Books, Society, Writing

  Author, Blogging, Blogs, Books, Commas, Communication, English, Flypaper for Freaks, Freaking Hired!, Grammar, Grammar Nazi, Language, Punctuation, Social Media, Writer