By Curtis Honeycutt I’m astonished at how often the world of grammar intersects the headlines. Since the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6,
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Top 10 reasons I didn’t get this week’s Top 10 List done
By Torry Stiles 10. Spent the week helping hang plywood downtown. 9. Dress code violation in The Southside Times office. Had an old Roncalli Rebels
Opening up Pandora’s can of worms
By Curtis Honeycutt When it comes to streaming radio services, I prefer Pandora over Amazon Music. You see, Pandora offers deep cuts while Amazon plays
Top 10 new words and phrases we need to add to the dictionary No. 6
By Torry Stiles 10. UNSTAGRAM – verb – The act of deleting your old comments on the internet after we all find something else to
From ‘adorkable’ to ‘zhuzh’: words you’ll be surprised to find in the dictionary
By Curtis Honeycutt The twenty-first century is an uncharted landscape of post-postmodernism. Truth can be whatever we want it to be at any given moment
I declare a new year: back up your declarations with do-clarations
By Curtis Honeycutt Did you know there are four types of sentences in the English language? A complete sentence in English falls into one of
Top 10 observations of the emergency room during COVID
By Torry Stiles (Dear readers: Well, ol’ Torry did it again. The ticker wasn’t ticking right, and it was off to the emergency room I
Don’t forget to pack your diphthong to the beach
By Curtis Honeycutt I promised myself that I wouldn’t mention Sisqo’s 1999 hit “Thong Song” in this article, but I’ve already done it. Avid Grammar
Top 10 slogans for this year’s New Year’s parties
By Torry Stiles 10. “New Year’s Eve 2020 but the hangover started 12 months ago.” 9. “2020: The year when we all demanded to see
Battle of the Clauses: one flies solo, while the other has a little help from its elves
By Curtis Honeycutt I have an idea for an epic Christmas movie. It would feature a good Santa against an evil South Pole Santa. There