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Older Than Retro

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Older Than Retro desires to keep proper, traditional English alive, but don't let that turn you off! It's fun, and funny. Come and see...

Added on: Aug 26th, 2008
Country: United States
Language: English

Author: Suzy
Listed in: Education Languages
Tags: grammar english language

Recent Posts

The Typewriter that got me through high school

Posted on Thursday October 8th, 2009 at 07:08

I'm fascinated, as was my father, by how technology changes the world around us. I've decided to use this blog to discuss.Here for instance, from the attic, is the typewriter that I used to write my high school papers. It's a Smith Corona. There's a ...
Mighty Aphrodite

Posted on Friday October 31st, 2008 at 15:23

Mighty is a word that should be used with care.If you use mighty as in "I'm mighty glad to see you," it will either date you, as someone who actually worked on the original Foghorn Leghorn comics, make you sound Southern, but cheesy Southern, not the...
Material Girl

Posted on Tuesday October 28th, 2008 at 15:20

Materialize actually means to "make material" or to "invest with or regard as material."It does not mean "to take place or to happen."So, when you say"the party never materialized," you are just plain wrong, and should have been home reading fine li...
Mannish Boy

Posted on Saturday October 25th, 2008 at 15:10

Forgetting for a moment that we all love Mckinley Morganfield, a.k.a. Muddy Waters, who masterfully rendition of Mannish Boy could be titled nothing else, the words mannish and manly are not synonymous.Manly signifies of or becoming to a man, man-li...
A Likely Pet Peeve

Posted on Sunday October 19th, 2008 at 14:26

Here is another misuse of words that is on the top third of my Teeth Gritter List.Likely. Liable. They are not interchangeable. Really. And liable is not a fancy way to say likely, and no, it doesn't make you sound more Southern. You won't be inc...
Am I Idle or Lazy?

Posted on Thursday October 16th, 2008 at 14:19

The words idle and lazy are not synonymous. Let us be precise in our speech and use them correctly.Idleness describes the state of one given to empty, vain, or useless effort. It does not mean inaction, but the absence of useful action. This diffe...