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Question:

I possess both ES&L and ABITC – for anyone familiar with Keith Waterhouse’s columns, I should be a member of the Association for the Abolition of Aberrant Apostrophes. One thing that made me *fume* recently – a staffing agency looking for someone to fill a PA type role, "good grammer essential". Fortunately I didn’t have a large marker pen about my person at the time …. — Cathi

I guess "grammer" is important in this job, but spelling isn’t. ;o) In ES&L she has examples of "grammer" that include ads for educators. LOL

Response:

So, can we make that into an airplane banner & fly it over the entire English-speaking world? ;o) I’d like to make another: Attention: "It’s" ALWAYS means "It is."  SO easy, but I don’t think they teach it that easy way. YES!! YES!!  That’s one of my pet peeves… can you tell?

One of mine is houses/homes.  I often tell my students, "It’s just a house, until you make it a home."  I wish the real estate people would get it right. Pam S.

Response:

- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – So, can we make that into an airplane banner & fly it over the entire English-speaking world? ;o) I’d like to make another: Attention: "It’s" ALWAYS means "It is."  SO easy, but I don’t think they teach it that easy way. YES!! YES!!  That’s one of my pet peeves… can you tell? One of mine is houses/homes.  I often tell my students, "It’s just a house, until you make it a home."  I wish the real estate people would get it right.

You’re right, Pam, but they’re actually doing it on purpose to make the houses more attractive to the buying public; calling it a home makes it feel warmer and more personal.  Actually, I don’t care if they call mine a little grass hut; just sell it for me!  ;-) Nina — Professional proofreading doesn