Comments on: A Story of W’s

By: Liz

Liz — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:22:43 +0000

But… on line 3, Walter is misspelled as Waiter. Or does he work in a restaurant?

By: Kate

Kate — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:08:10 +0000

Dima, what I wrote is correct. Apostrophes are used for plural singular letters, but not for plurals of multiple letters.

The Oakland A’s have a correct team name and logo.

If you say that you get mostly A’s and B’s on your report card, you’re correct.

However, you would say that the RAs are the people in charge of a dorm floor.

By: Dima N.

Dima N. — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 06:02:32 +0000

It makes me cry when people use apostrophes for purals, as in “a story of W’s”. Please, stop using apostrophes for plurals!! Just because a word ends in a vowel or is in all capitals does not mean you can use an apostrophe. Inappropriate use of apostrophes!

By: der Englisch-Blog | Eine englische Geschichte, bei der jedes Wort mit “w” beginnt

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 04:05:51 +0000

[...] beginnt Markus Brendel · Datum: 23 Juli 2008 Die folgende Geschichte habe ich auf “The Grammar Vandal” , einem Blog von Kate McCulley [...]

By: Bitterly Books

Bitterly Books — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:38:14 +0000

I just… wow.

I think reading that broke something in my head.

By: megorious | wordplay | What Whimsical Words

megorious | wordplay | What Whimsical Words — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:36:31 +0000

[...] found this short story last week and meant to post it, but The Grammar Vandal beat me to it. I think she has my computer bugged with her secret legion of grammar bugs (comma caterpillar, [...]

By: Lee

Lee — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:02:04 +0000

Okaaayyy…

I prefer Lem’s classic (anybody know what this looks like in the original Polish?):

Seduced, shaggy Samson snored.
She scissored short. Sorely shorn,
Soon shackled slave, Samson sighed.
Silently scheming,
Sightlessly seeking
Some savage, spectacular suicide.

~ Stanislaw Lem, The Cyberiad (translated by Michael Kandel)

By: ccr in MA

ccr in MA — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:58:11 +0000

I did a high school English project like this, with a short piece for each letter of the alphabet. “An article about Atticus: an alarmingly abstract agitator…”