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Only In Alabama: The Grammar Police

Now I have had this blog since the end of July….so not even 7 months yet. I get a lot of email regarding a lot of subjects, but the past week I have gotten FOUR, yes FOUR emails explaining to me that my grammar is incorrect on the words:

Your vs You’re

and

Than vs. Then

I didn’t know you all cared so much. Much less four separate people….or maybe its one and she is really insistent on me changing it and has come up with additional aliases….either way, I am starting to think that my site has been printed on a teachers site and they are all coming over to correct me in  a big red pen grammar mob.

The fact is, I am lazy. If spell check says its right, its right. I have seen bloggers SOUND OUT THIER WORDS and not even spell check, so surely my little grammer no nos are not that heartbreaking. My biggest mistake is skipping words and I usually don’t catch that (if i do at all) till after the post is published. I can read a 500 page book in 2 hours, and have been able to since I was about 8 and my mind is trained to automatically skips words like “the”, “and”, and  “or”. Because of that, I often do it in my typing as well.

So when we were out driving this weekend and I saw this sign down the street from us, I realized………Its NOT me.

Its Alabama.

Its starting to rub off onto me.

ICK! GET THE ALABAMA OFF OF ME. ITS  CONTAGIOUS!!!

spellcheck

~Trisha

About Trisha-admin

Trisha Haas is the head of MomDot; a sometimes controversial (but always fun!) mom blogger community. Trisha has a beautiful daughter, Charlotte and an often crazy (but lovable) husband named Chris. Her family encourages and inspires her to blog in this personal and professional online dialogue. You can follow Trisha on twitter @MomDotRocks.
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32 Comments

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    Kathryn
    January 28, 2009 | Permalink | Reply

    @ Trisha-admin:
    That’s great, everything’s cooool, no problems, Mate! G’day!

    Signed: Throwing another shrimp on the barbie — which is always quite better than having a Barbie ‘throw’ herself onto a shrimp … We all know that’s no fun!! ;)

  • 31
    January 28, 2009 | Permalink | Reply

    There was a time when I probably would have silently stewed about the misspellings. Now? I don’t care. As long as I can understand what you are saying, it works for me. :)

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