Fare warning

At the National Equality March this weekend in Washington, D.C., WKU student Skylar Baker-Jordan spied this spelling error in The Metro . . .

If the people who run our nation's capital don't know how to spell, does that mean the rest of us are doomed?????

If you didn't already figure it out, this should be two words: "Exit Fare."

GRAMMAR RULE: Do a spellcheck before you hit print!

The cat's out of the bag

I'm not sure what to make of this Hello Kitty birthday card found by WKU student Jessica Vessels. Is it an actual error, or is this just kitty talk? Do kitties just call each other "very special you"? Well, even if they did, they would need an "a" before the word "very," so this is wrong no matter how you interpret it.

Clearly, the problem here is that the words are out of order. If we just picked up "very special" and moved it so that if fell before "birthday," the card would make sense because it would read like this:

Wishing you a very special birthday sprinkled with smiles and fun.

But is that how kitties talk???

GRAMMAR RULE: Read out loud to avoid placement errors.

Tin Roof Busted

WKU student Brad Jones found this spelling area in a local paper.

What gets me is that this error would have come up with a simple spellcheck.

GRAMMAR RULE: Do a spellcheck before you hit print!