No more serial commas?!

This article put a kink in my day. A moment of silence for the serial comma – except when needed to resolve ambiguity, of course. I'll miss it. What about you?

Loose & Lose

The words this week aren't homophones. But I felt compelled to include them because as I find writers absentmindedly interchanging them, it's become my second-biggest grammatical pet peeve*. These two words are completely different – they have different spellings, different pronunciations, and different meanings. They're simply not related. But what does that matter to the careless writer? They both pass spell-check, don't they?

* In case you're wondering, "must of" is #1.

Mmmmm...

This week's post got me thinking:
Doughnut or donut?

Hole & Whole

Either way, it's my favorite part of the donut.

Moose & Mousse

This was a classic homophone in middle school – when spiked, moussed hair was the shit, and no animal embodied the awkward gangliness of adolescence quite like the knobby-kneed moose.
Of course, mousse is also that whipped treat, not quite ice cream, not quite pudding – the puberty of desserts, if you will.

Bridal & Bridle

No jokes about being harnessed into marriage, OK?

A very important question for you:

Gray or Grey?