Language Tobi on 23 May 2007
It’s ‘its’, stupid
As pointed out, my last language post was not about homonyms, but this one is.
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Language Tobi on 08 May 2007
Where’s Your ‘their’?
Your usage of the word their that is. As in my earlier post about minimum/maximum/criterion, their should be added to the endangered species list of the English vocabulary.
Language Tobi on 04 Apr 2007
Critiqing Criterias
Of course there is no such thing as criterias. Nor are there maximas or minimas. If you had had the opportunity to have Latin in high school you would know that the word form ending in -a designates the plural form, while the -um designates the singular. Criterion being an exception, probably because the language [...]