Here’s the way the sentence read in a major news report: “She admitted the concept of using social media in marketing alluded her.” Yikes! I’d been reading fast, but my attention snapped back to the error. ALLUDE – To refer to a person, place, thing, event, etc., indirectly. The important word in the definition […]
misuse of words
Third Wednesday – The Prerogative for Using Purgative Pejoratives
In these Third Wednesday posts, the words and phrases under discussion have been seen in print. Yep, they have. Some make the reader groan aloud. Some make us laugh as our minds create an image of the misused word in the context of the scene. And there are those that make us weep… how could […]
The First Third Wednesday – Overdoing the Overdue Work
Update: 08/15/2013 – So now you know why I’m a writer, not a mathematician. It seems I can’t even count off weeks on the calendar. Next week, on the real third Wednesday of August, I’ll post the article I planned for this week. A consistent problem I see in manuscripts, news articles, and yes, in […]