Proverbs

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Your Ghetto Name

I’m Rieetakiee.  Sounds more like an Indian name than a ghetto name.

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Yeah, what HE said!

Johnny Depp speaks a whole new language.

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Male vs Female English

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Rachel’s board

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11 Little-Known Grammatical Errors That Will Shock and Horrify You

You know who everyone loves? The guy who constantly corrects everyone’s grammar.  I hope that this list helps you become That Guy and, in the process, make tons and tons of new friends.

Here are a few examples:

*  Try and. The correct phrase is “try to.” It really does make sense logically — the trying [...]

The origin of a phrase

Have you ever wondered who first uttered the phrase “You Gotta Be Shittin’ Me”? 

Well, it just so happens to have originated through the Father of Our Country, way back when George Washington was crossing the Delaware River with his troops. 

There were 33 (remember this number) in Washington’s boat.  It was extremely dark and [...]

Top 50 oxymorons

50. Act naturally49. Found missing48. Resident alien47. Advanced BASIC46. Genuine imitation45. Airline food44. Good grief43. Same difference42. Almost exactly41. Government organization40. Sanitary landfill39. Alone together38. Legally drunk37. Silent scream36. British fashion35. Living dead34. Small crowd33. Business ethics32. Soft rock31. Butt head30. Military intelligence29. Software documentation28. New York culture27. Extinct life26. Sweet sorrow25. Childproof24. “Now, then…”23. [...]

When to use a semicolon

I didn’t know this (super-comma) about semicolons:

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Wacky definitions

Arbitrator \ar’-bi-tray-ter\: A cook that leaves Arby’s to work at McDonald’s.

Avoidable \uh-voy’-duh-buhl\: What a bullfighter tries to do.

Baloney \buh-lo’-nee\: Where some hemlines fall

Bernadette \burn’-a-det\: The act of torching a mortgage

Burglarize \bur’-gler-ize\: What a crook sees with

Control \kon-trol’\: A short, ugly inmate

Counterfeiters \kown-ter-fit-ers \: Workers who put together kitchen cabinets

Eclipse \i-klips’\: what an English barber does [...]