Po-Po

I don’t like the term “deputies.”
I like “police.”
I don’t like “investigators.”
I like “detectives.”
So the detectives determined that Justin was smoking his bong in the wilderness after police said they heard a group around a campfire playing Wu-Tang covers with a sitar.
The investigators and the deputies just stood around sounding stupid.
Which is generally what pigs [...]

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Exclusivity

I keep thinking about taking my truck to the Exclusive Detailing and Auto Care place that I drive by every day on my way to work.
But I don’t want to feel excluded.

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Pled vs. Pleaded

This is one I used to struggle with regularly in my day-to-day work, until I got used to it.
Someone pled guilty or pleaded guilty?
The rule for us in journalism is pleaded. The lawyers like pled.
I imagine this goes back to the good ole English court terminology somewhere in history.
In any case … I like pled.  [...]

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Theological Thumpers?

It’s coming to that time of year when there’s a knock at the door and you know who it is before you even open it.
To insult these people (never to their faces) some might call them names.  And they don’t put much thought into their insults.
Bible Bashers.
Where this one came from I’ve no idea.  But [...]

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It’s RIGHT, right?

“I’ve just had a right good shit,” a friend who is known for giving unnecessary information said.
So, a good shit was not enough, it was a right good shit. Does that mean a good shit which is correct?  Can a good shit be incorrect for that matter.
“I’m right pleased with my new job.” – Can [...]

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The Top Really Isn’t

The word top doesn’t mean to some people what it does to others. Is it a question of perspective?
“I’m on top of the world.” I suppose we all are in some sense, what with the world being a sphere, spinning through space. But if we take it to mean at the North Pole, as some [...]

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Depending On When And Where You Look At It

I think I’ve found a solution to the “further/farther” problem.
If you didn’t already know, this one is a common mix-up.
“Further” is meant to determine distance in time.
“Farther” determines distance in space.
However, if you make a mistake, all you have to do is point out that both time and space are interconnected and that you meant [...]

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He’s Not A Dragon, People

“Man charged in honor student’s slaying”
 Since when are people “slayed?”
Newspapers love to use words and phrases that no one uses in regular discourse … like referring to someone who died in a car accident as a “fatal” or an issue creating a “firestorm of controversy.”
But “slaying” has to be the worst. You don’t slay people. You slay dragons [...]

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A New Word

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Either You Can Or You Can’t

I couldn’t care less whether it rains today or not.
That means that if it rains or it doesn’t, I really have no room to care any less than I do either way.
Now, if I said I could care less — which we hear so often — then what’s really the point? If we can care [...]

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