Delightful new portmanteau: hamlette

Simple and elegant: ham + omelette = hamlette! 🙂

Found at a workplace cafe.

Don’t know why this wasn’t ever a thing, and other than there, doesn’t seem to be.

Hope that changes; happy to do my part. Spread the word! 😉

It’s ‘cooking with gas’

Not ‘cooking with gasoline’.

That would be very dangerous.

You’re welcome. 😀

Prone versus supine

Prone means lying on your stomach; supine means lying on your back.

You’re welcome. 🙂

“Snipped it in the butt”

Oops!

Someone just emailed me a professional email that ended in "We could've snipped it in the butt earlier"
SNIPPED
IT
IN
THE
BUTT

Nipped it in the bud – correct
Nipped it in the butt – incorrect
Snipped it in the butt -Incorrecter

— Your Lord and Daveior (@TheFaceOfDave) May 14, 2019

Be sure to click and read the thread; lots of other great malapropisms. 🙂

THE PALINDROMES OF MANGAREVA

Polynesian palindromes…

‘Firsthand’ is one word, journalist

How the Oxford Comma helps avoid wrong impressions

With Oxford Comma:

I’d like to thank my parents, Jesus, and Mary.

Without Oxford Comma:

I’d like to thank my parents, Jesus and Mary.