On a sign at a fast food restaurant:
".99c roast beef sandwiches"
Wow! Under 1 cent for a roast beef sandwich? What a bargain!
The store meant 99c or $0.99. .99c is .01 less than 1 cent.
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In 2009 and 2010, The Writer published 20 online columns and one print article of mine. These essays covered everything from semicolons to wordiness. The full text of all 21 are here on my blog!
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- Criminal Sentence 47: Faulty Comparison
- Criminal Sentence 46: How Much?
- Criminal Sentence 45: Years (of) Experience
- Criminal Sentence 44: Your or You're?
- Criminal Sentence 43: Question Marks and Quotation...
- Criminal Sentence 42: Hire More Grammarians, Not T...
- Criminal Sentence 41: How Old Is This Mom?
- Criminal Sentence 40: Read What You Write
- Criminal Sentence 39: I Wouldn't
- Criminal Sentence 38: I'm "Sore" about This
- Criminal Sentence 37: "There Are" Better Ways to S...
- Criminal Sentence 36: Wherefore Art Thou, Comma?
- Criminal Sentence 35: Incompletes
- Criminal Sentence 34: To Ire or To Irk?
- Criminal Sentence 33: Apples to Apples
- Criminal Sentence 32: Don't Repeat
- Criminal Sentence 31: Commas or Semicolons
- Criminal Sentence 30: Insure or Ensure?
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