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!!!

~Trisha




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@ 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!!
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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