I’d never thought of a hat as a non sequitur until I saw this ad in my local newspaper.
With this hat, though, you just never know what might follow.
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Who that?
“That” is a perfectly fine pronoun. Buildings are thats, and bats are thats and even “thats” are that. But, please, for the sake of humanity, let’s make people – including “anyone” – “who” or “whom.”
Here’s one way to think about it, à la Theodor Geisel:
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This is about as basic as errors in usage get, but it (its?) pops up again and again in news stories, books, blogs and, as in this case, advertisements. Why?
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The “first 100 … recieves”? My guess is that the creators of this ad were distracted by the picture of the large-breasted woman covered (snicker) by the strand of red
Continue readingThere’s a reason it’s called junk mail
This is NOT A CHECK. It is shaped like a check. It is printed like a check. It has an amount like a check. It is signed like a check. But it is NOT A CHECK.
So what does one do with NOT A CHECK?
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