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14
Dec

Spot the Error

   Posted by: falconesse   in entertainment, language, snark

I’m not really following this whole baseball/steroids scandal thing, other than catching it on the news as my dad drove us home in the big gorram snowstorm last night, and from boredom-induced clicking today. 

But!  The phrase below kind of jumped out at me.  Whoever can tell me what’s wrong with it first gets a prize selected from the swag at my desk.

Said Roger Clemens’ lawyer, Rusty Hardin: 

Roger Clemens adamantly, vehemently, and whatever other adjectives can be used, denies that he has ever used steroids or … improper substances.

3
Dec

Vocabulary Time

   Posted by: falconesse   in language

Homophones - they sound the same but have different spellings and different meanings.

  • site - a place
  • sight - that thing your eyes are capable of doing
  • cite - to quote, or to refer to a source as proof
  • smite - what I want to do when people mix those up