December 6, 2007

Paws/pause (Or: I'm wrong a lot.)

These two words are not easily confused, apparently, unless you're me.

So, I'm reading an NYT article a bit ago, which quotes a bit of the Christmas carol, "Up On The Housetop." And then I'm thinking, "SPOTTED! AN ERROR IN THE TIMES! BY ME!"

It said, "Up on the housetop / reindeer pause / down comes good ol' Santa Clause."

How could they confuse PAUSE and PAWS? What carrots. So I looked up the lyrics to confirm my catch, only to discover I was dead wrong. I know reindeers can PAUSE, but alas, I guess they don't have PAWS.

So are they hooves?

December 4, 2007

OMG, nothing to post

It's as if the grammatical world has stopped on a dime and has decided to stop bugging me. It must be the Christmas spirit!

Anyone else have news?