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Eek! A gerund!: More reasons to love The Onion
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Gerund: jer'und, n: a part of speech, something like a hamster but with sharp pointy teeth. Monday, 3 September 2007. More reasons to love The Onion. As if we needed more reason to love them. 1 - Gratuitous mentions of monsters. Monsters are pretty much my favourite thing. I'm particularly fond of using the word as a verb, which is more grist to my theory that you can use pretty much any noun in English as a verb and people will know what you mean – eg 'can I window your diary'? 2 - Naming of hurricanes.
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Eek! A gerund!: March 2007
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Gerund: jer'und, n: a part of speech, something like a hamster but with sharp pointy teeth. Wednesday, 28 March 2007. Having the time to be brief. I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." – Blaise Pascal. It's probably the most relevant quote I've ever found for what I do. I'm constantly asked to shorten, shorten, shorten. It drives me crazy. Don't they see how the word 'scout' in paragraph 47 cleverly references the notion of 'being prepared' in paragraph 8?
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Eek! A gerund!: Hype and hyphenation
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Gerund: jer'und, n: a part of speech, something like a hamster but with sharp pointy teeth. Tuesday, 2 October 2007. So farewell then, brave hyphen. There have been numerous articles published recently lamenting the loss of the hyphen from our punctation armoury. This flourish of obituaries (not sure what the collective noun should be for obituaries: garland? Has been prompted by the latest revision of the OED, which removes hyphens from terms such as figleaf. See this Guardian article. I think either is...
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Eek! A gerund!: February 2008
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Gerund: jer'und, n: a part of speech, something like a hamster but with sharp pointy teeth. Monday, 4 February 2008. Apologies for the lengthy delay since my last blog. As those of you who know me will know, there has been a very good reason. Suffice to say this blog has been incubating for a while. Over the last few months, I've been exposed to a whole new lexicon – one very unfamiliar to me: the language of pregnancy. But happily most of my new words are much jollier in their connotations. And much...
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Eek! A gerund!: February 2007
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Gerund: jer'und, n: a part of speech, something like a hamster but with sharp pointy teeth. Wednesday, 28 February 2007. As part of becoming self-employed, you fill in a lot of forms. Insurance, banking, website registration: a lot of white DL envelopes have sat on the mantlepiece over the last few weeks. Most are addressed like this:. Until I got to my National Insurance contributions form, which has to go to my old friends HM Revenue and Customs. Here's the address. And here's how I read it). At 8 line...
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Eek! A gerund!: October 2007
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Gerund: jer'und, n: a part of speech, something like a hamster but with sharp pointy teeth. Sunday, 7 October 2007. Punctuation perils of motorway driving. My partner is driving. Which is a good thing, as I suddenly wake from my drowsy state to become a spitting, snarling, incoherently gibbering cat-beast. He swerves, slightly, and wants to know what's wrong. I point a trembling, raging, finger at a Sainsbury's van that we're passing. 'THAT! Which should explain things somewhat. My poor partner puts up w...
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Eek! A gerund!: September 2007
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Gerund: jer'und, n: a part of speech, something like a hamster but with sharp pointy teeth. Tuesday, 18 September 2007. I'm sorning this morning. So having declared that you can make pretty much any noun work as a verb, I discovered a fairly extreme case in point in this morning's post. If you declare that your car is off the road, you make a Statutory Off Road Notification. For spelling this correctly] or SORN online or by phone'. It's interesting that they keep the capitals. Monday, 3 September 2007.
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Eek! A gerund!: Just not necessary
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Gerund: jer'und, n: a part of speech, something like a hamster but with sharp pointy teeth. Monday, 23 July 2007. Call us with your bank details and don't worry – we'll update your Direct Debit for you. All you need to do is relax.". Well, I'm afraid I've decided not to relax. I've decided to have a little rant. I'm really not impressed. It's 14 characters on an online form. It goes along with "we'd be delighted to help in any way we can". They got my vote. I bet that wasn't in your brand guidelines.
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Eek! A gerund!: October 2008
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Gerund: jer'und, n: a part of speech, something like a hamster but with sharp pointy teeth. Sunday, 19 October 2008. A very personal contribution to forms design. So it's been a while. But for extremely good reasons. I got to know plenty more reassuringly everyday pregnancy terms, including lightening. Don't ask). And after 36 hours, I also gained a very thorough appreciation of why it's called labour. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. And/or/if: they ain't half hot mum.
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Eek! A gerund!: Punctuation perils of motorway driving
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Gerund: jer'und, n: a part of speech, something like a hamster but with sharp pointy teeth. Sunday, 7 October 2007. Punctuation perils of motorway driving. My partner is driving. Which is a good thing, as I suddenly wake from my drowsy state to become a spitting, snarling, incoherently gibbering cat-beast. He swerves, slightly, and wants to know what's wrong. I point a trembling, raging, finger at a Sainsbury's van that we're passing. 'THAT! Which should explain things somewhat. My poor partner puts up w...
