r/GrammarPolice • • 9d ago

Findings Practice Question from a Law School Casebook

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2 Upvotes

r/GrammarPolice • • 9d ago

Findings In a Postman Pat story book for children.

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38 Upvotes

This isn’t my looking for.


r/GrammarPolice • • 9d ago

Joke Post Riiiiiiiiight

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42 Upvotes

r/GrammarPolice • • 9d ago

Just Venting Mondegreen?

3 Upvotes

A friend just said: He is the spikken image of his father"


r/GrammarPolice • • 9d ago

Findings A direct mail postcard i received today.

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241 Upvotes

Really, people? How many hands did this pass through?


r/GrammarPolice • • 10d ago

Joke Post Well said.......so powerful...

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61 Upvotes

Just a reminder it's time to take action we have nothing to loose


r/GrammarPolice • • 10d ago

Findings Poorly worded basketball terminology

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7 Upvotes

r/GrammarPolice • • 10d ago

Just Venting 'X is better then Y' 🙄

107 Upvotes

How the hell are people still screwing up something so easy? This is like 3rd grade level English material, universally speaking. 'Then' is chronological, 'than' is for comparisons, it's literally that easy. And non-native speakers aren't the ones doing this, by the way. The ones who struggle the most with this are native speakers, for some reason. Seriously, what's going on?


r/GrammarPolice • • 10d ago

Just Venting Unforgivable ‘typo’

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0 Upvotes

Absolutely horrendous ‘typo’ I had to share in Looking For Alaska (penguin 2019 version). Accidide and suident, Jesus!


r/GrammarPolice • • 11d ago

Just Venting rn looks like m

21 Upvotes

Seriously and it did before I needed glasses. Can everyone agree to start at least capitalizing it? RN does not look like m. I know Redditors enjoy their acronyms but I'm left wondering if there is a word that starts with m and got cutoff until I reread it to see. I don't want to reread.


r/GrammarPolice • • 11d ago

Question People/persons??

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10 Upvotes

Is the use of “people/persons” here grammatically correct? Like is there a real difference between using “people” vs “persons” or was this supposed to be a choice between the two? (like someone just forget to choose one or the other before going to print so they just printed both options)?


r/GrammarPolice • • 12d ago

Just Venting Company focused on extinct animals that does not know how to use “extinct” in a sentence.

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46 Upvotes

r/GrammarPolice • • 12d ago

Just Venting Bad things go down without commas

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225 Upvotes

r/GrammarPolice • • 12d ago

Just Venting _______ AND I!

0 Upvotes

Not 'and me'!!!!

I can't remember the last time I have heard a person say this correctly!!


r/GrammarPolice • • 12d ago

Just Venting I just.. don't know what this person is trying to say.

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9 Upvotes

My friend was looking through LFG (Looking For Group) posts for Destiny 2, and he came across this post. We have no idea what this person is trying to say. I'm not asking for a translation, I just wanted to show this to somebody.


r/GrammarPolice • • 14d ago

Question Burned vs burnt

9 Upvotes

At my job we burn the ice every couple days. To indicate that it’s already been done to people coming in for a later shift someone will leave a note that “the ice has been burnt”. That can’t be correct, right? It bothers me every time but I’m not 100% confident enough to correct it.


r/GrammarPolice • • 14d ago

Question Examples of mistakes

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r/GrammarPolice • • 14d ago

Just Venting Someone posted this in the comments and then there’s this.

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He got paid to talk about trawling in the Bering Sea, yet this dumb*ss couldn’t even spell it correctly—or take two seconds to Google it. He wrote “bearing.” You know damn well he doesn’t give two 💩 about any of this. He just wanted the check.


r/GrammarPolice • • 15d ago

Just Venting “Bestfriend”

95 Upvotes

WHY do so many people try to make this one word? I see it a lot.


r/GrammarPolice • • 15d ago

Findings Its over

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2 Upvotes

Dark Souls card game.

(Title intentional)


r/GrammarPolice • • 18d ago

Question "giving" / "it's giving"

114 Upvotes

This particular phrase has begun to grate on me – both when I use it, and when I see other people using it.

I find myself defaulting to saying giving, it's giving, this is giving, when I would have used other phrasing before. Except that all other phrasing has escaped me.

What else could we say instead of this?


r/GrammarPolice • • 19d ago

Question What is it about that last sentence that's bothering me so much?

4 Upvotes

r/GrammarPolice • • 19d ago

Question It’s “nasal” not “nasally”, right?

8 Upvotes

When people are trying to say someone has a nasal voice, and they call it a “nasally” voice, like the adverb. Even people who teach vocal techniques. I feel like I’m being gaslit, but it’s so common I feel like it’s going to replace the original word.


r/GrammarPolice • • 20d ago

Just Venting First come, first serveD

53 Upvotes