Don’t trust everything you see today (or any day), and be sure to find out whether “April Fool’s Day”, “April Fools’ Day” or “April Fools Day” is correct. Although not a public holiday, April Fools’ Day reminds us all to not take life too seriously. (When I was young, my Mom would help me put…
Be sure to “March Forth on March 4th”!
I’m sure that “YUO CNA ESIALY RAED TIHS ETNRIE STENECNE”! Have you seen this? Apparently, as long as the first and last letters of each word are correct, even if the rest of the letters in each word are mixed up, you can still read the sentence!
Did you know that there’s a list of words and phrases that are Banished for Misuse, Overuse, and Uselessness? Lake Superior State University (LSSU) issues this tongue-in-cheek list at the end of each year. LSSU says it compiles the list to encourage “…avoidance of words and terms that are overworked, redundant, oxymoronic, clichéd, illogical, nonsensical…
This is a clever play on words that has created countless errors. As we’re based in Vancouver, BC, we’ve seen this one often.