Archive for December, 2007



CNN.com uses "loose" when "lose" is the correct word

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Bills blames themselves

From the Buffalo News web site, www.buffalonews.com, this typo shows the
difficulty in getting subject-verb agreement when a singular entity like a
team has a plural name like the Bills.

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