Friday, May 8, 2009

THE REAL DIGGITY DOGGONE DIGGITY: STRANGE ACTUAL WORDS & EVENTS


A common grammatical error is substituting myself for me. An example of this was on an A&E Biography profile of Timothy McVeigh, who with cohort Terry Nichols bombed the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City. One woman interviewed recalled that in her childhood McVeigh was her next-door neighbor and baby-sitter and that he would "come over and baby-sit me and play with myself."

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