Thursday, September 15, 2005

Word Nerd Brain-Teaser No. 5

Answers from last week:
1. Candice Bergen now does commercials for The Dallas Morning News.
2. She graduated from Texas Woman's University and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
3. The scientists at the Centers for Disease Control warn of a possible epidemic.
4. The dinosaur's bones were displayed at the Smithsonian Institution.
5. For decades, the most famous athlete in the world was Muhammad Ali.

Did you get all 10 mistakes?

Here's this week's word-teaser, a little something I like to call "Comma, Comma Down, Dooby Doo, Down, Down." Put commas where they belong (do NOT use the serial comma in a list of three or more things). And you don't need to post answers. This is self-study. Answers will be posted next week. OK, go to it.

1. Well is this your final day at work?
2. After the doctor reset it her broken arm mended perfectly.
3. The wedding gifts included a clock a popcorn popper a plasma TV and seven toasters.
4. "If you reheat that awful meatloaf one more time I'm getting a divorce" Tammy said to David her third husband.
5. John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22 1963 in Dallas Texas.

9 Comments:

Blogger Lia said...

if i can't post the answers, what can i post here?

9:49 AM  
Blogger Eddo said...

I want to post something too!

10:27 AM  
Blogger writer said...

The Associated Press style that most media use (or should) cap and italicize all four words: The Dallas Morning News.

Also, I still maintain that the word "media" is a plural, as in "The media are all over this story."

As for what to post here? Anything but politics.

WFAA/Channel 8 news misspelled the name of our senator, Kay Bailey Hutchison. Again. Note to Channel 8 News: There is no "N" in the middle of Hutchison.

11:03 AM  
Blogger Jeff the Baptist said...

The word "data" is also plural. "Datum" is the singular form. A lot of people forget that one too. Durn latin roots.

12:41 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hey, you can't do commercials for a newspaper. Those are advertisements!--Fondly, Jim in Michigan

4:09 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Neil Sedaka teaching punctuation. Groovy.

Love the random faculty blurts. But I'm wondering about the woman sleeping in the lounge between classes. Does the speaker consider it "not right" in a judgmental (she ought not) sense, or a sympathetic (she ought not have to) one?

6:17 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I have never read a sound argument against using the serial comma, but I'm interested in yours.

1:45 PM  
Blogger Suzanne said...

Any extra points for asking a really annoying copyeditor-type question? No? Oh, well, here I go anyway. Does AP style call for using the complete name of the CDC -- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention?

(Love, love, LOVE your blog, by the way.)

5:46 PM  
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