The Right Coast |
|
|
Thoughts from San Diego on Law, Politics, and Culture
Right Coasters
Gail Heriot Saikrishna Prakash Michael Rappaport Maimon Schwarzschild Thomas Smith Christopher Wonnell Email Us Gail Heriot Saikrishna Prakash Michael Rappaport Maimon Schwarzschild Thomas Smith Christopher Wonnell Links Andrew Sullivan Atlantic Blog The Buck Stops Here Corporate Law Blog Crescat Sententia Crooked Timber Curmudgeonly Clerk Daniel Drezner En Banc EveTushnet.Com FreeSpace How Appealing Instapundit Law and Econ Blog Little Green Footballs Legal Theory Blog The Leiter Reports Marginal Revolution Overlawyered Pejmanesque ProfBainbridge.Com Punishment Theory Rasmusen Weblog SFA Politics & Relig Southern Appeal SpoonsExperience USS Clueless The Volokh Conspiracy The Yin Blog Archives The Bear Flag League Aaron's Rantblog (LA) Absinthe & Cookies Accidental Jedi (Fres) Angry Clam (LA) Baldilocks BlogoSFERICS (Expat) BoifromTroy (LA) CalBlog (Los Angeles) California Republic Citizen Smash(SD) Cobb (Los Angeles) Daily Pundit (SF) Dale Franks e-Claire(Northern CA) Fresh Potatoes(Orang) Infinite Monkeys The Interocitor (LA) The Irish Lass (Sacra) Left Coast Conserv. Lex Communis (Fres) Master of None (LA) Miller's Time (Sac) Molly's Musings (SD) Mulatto Boy (LA) Howard Owens (Vent) Pathetic Earthlings) Patio Pundit Patterico's Pontifications(LA) PrestoPundit (Orange) QandO Right on the Left Beach Shark Blog (Expat) Slings and Arrows (SD) So. Cal Law Blog (LA) Tone Cluster Window Manager Xrlq (Orange) 
|
February 09, 2006
Check out this website of common errors in English By Tom Smith And this WSU English Prof is scoring about 100K hits a month on his web page. I'm jealous. Oops. I really mean, envious. Lots of cool stuff. Duck tape. Asterisk. Celtic like kilt, not like the Boston Celtics, which is mispronounced, bizarrely given how many Irish Americans there are in Boston. (But then my mother's family says Coughlin like "Coff-lin", not "Cock-lin", as they do in Eire; no idea why. Maybe trying not to sound Irish?) And an extremely valuable and clear discussion of affect vs. effect. Please read it and never misuse those words around me again. Somewhere he says -- "Nobody said English was easy. Just memorize it and get on with your life." They don't make many professors like this anymore. My own little suggestion would be, you don't have to pronounce aunt as "ahhnt" or envelope as "ahhnvelope," and for heaven's sake do not say, Nevahhhda, Orygone, or Colorahhhhdo, but please, put the accent on the second syllable of propane, cement, and insurance, not the first, unless you want somebody to think you chew tabacky and are married to your first through third cousin. MORE FUN with words. Hat tip to LS. |