Fight the Grammer Nazis

[xoxoxoBruce]

Fake language rules can come from respected sources, but that’s no reason to believe them.

None are? None is? They’re both correct.

The girl that I marry. No, it doesn’t have to be whom I marry.

Since you asked. It’s totally legit to use since for because, unless it would cause ambiguity.

Healthy choices. Many of us have been taught that it’s healthy people but healthful foods.

“Till” was there first. In recent decades, somebody launched the mischievous rumor that till is a substandard form of until.

Verbing nouns.

“And” can start a sentence. So can But and However.

Misspelled is not misused. Errors like “faster then a speeding bullet” and “taking a lot of flack” are mistakes in spelling, not comprehension.

The adverb can be “wrong.”

You only live once. Spotting “misplacements” of only is a hobby for some picky readers — they’d rewrite that sentence as “you live only once,” so there’s no way to misinterpret it.

linkhttp://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/id..._rules/?page=1