grammar – New York Times bestselling author Jenna Bennett

Eye halve a spelling chequer

Posted onDecember 27, 2011

This arrived in my email box today, and I couldn’t resist: Eye halve a spelling chequer It came with my pea sea.It plane lee marks four my revueMiss steaks aye can knot sea. Eye ran this poem threw it,Your sure reel glad two no.Its vary polished in it’s weigh.My checker tolled me sew. A checker Read More …

Ode to the English Plural

Posted onNovember 1, 20112 Comments

I didn’t write this, and I don’t know who did, but as a non-native English speaker, let me tell you, the English language is tricky: We’ll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes,But the plural of ox becomes oxen, not oxes.One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese,Yet the plural of Read More …