Lately, all my mornings start the same way: I lay in bed, listening to the sound of my neighbour throwing up. First time it happened was a weekend, and I wondered (not without some satisfaction) whether it was him, suffering the after-effects of too much alcohol. But it's been going on for over a month now, so I'm pretty sure it's her, suffering the after-effects of impregnation.
It is possible to know too much about your neighbours.
To entertain you, I will direct you towards The Grammar Blog. I can't quite remember where I came across this blog, but I'm always up for a bit of syntactical geekery (hey, it's part of the job description, 'kay?), and at the moment there's a post featuring eggcorns.1
Fair warning, there's an embedded mp3 in the blog post, but rest assured, it's two DJ's talking, so nobody is going to assume you've visited an unsafe site. They are going to know you've tuned into (gasp) grammar radio, though.
- Must admit, I'd never heard of an eggcorn, and would probably have called any eggcorns I heard a malapropism. [↩]


Leigh Dragoon [31 January 2009 @ 5:23 am]
Yay! Grammar geekery. I love it.
1damselfly [31 January 2009 @ 7:00 am]
I know, it thrills my geeky heart so!
2Livia Llewellyn [31 January 2009 @ 7:00 am]
Hey, we're both going to be in the same Postscripts! I have no idea when this info was posted, but I found it today (yes, I was ego-googling, lol):
http://store.pspublishing.co.uk/acatalog/postscripts_magazine_issue_18 _hc.html
3damselfly [31 January 2009 @ 7:06 am]
Hey, antho buddies! Thanks for the heads-up, I was wondering when that story was going to come out.
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