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🗓️ 10 May 2018
⏱️ 15 minutes
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0:00.0 | This week in honor of Mother's Day, which is Sunday in the United States, I have a meeting |
0:12.2 | middle about capitalization in general and also when to capitalize words such as mom |
0:18.0 | and mother. |
0:19.6 | And I have a second meeting middle about why we say someone is in the doldrums. |
0:25.0 | At first I have a correction from last week. |
0:27.6 | Neil Babcock on Twitter pointed out that I said the summary of the quick and dirty tip |
0:32.6 | backwards at the end of one of the segments last week. |
0:36.3 | So just to be clear, think of Americans as bald. |
0:41.1 | If you're in America, people tell bald-faced lies. |
0:45.3 | And if you're in Britain, people tell bare-faced lies. |
0:49.0 | Thanks, Neil. |
0:50.7 | So we had some fun follow-ups to the mixed metaphor and hyphen segments. |
0:55.7 | Funny mixed metaphors readers shared include a stitch in time is worth a pound of cure, |
1:02.0 | like a loose cannon in a china shop, beating your head against a dead horse, and my favorite |
1:08.6 | it's like pulling teeth from a baby. |
1:12.5 | And Peter Steven on Twitter wrote, quote, on hyphens, I'm a football fan. |
1:17.8 | In this time of year, there's lots of news about players resigning, but newspapers drop |
1:23.7 | the hyphen all the time. |
1:26.7 | Resigning is the complete opposite of resigning, unquote, good point. |
1:33.1 | Thanks, Peter, and thanks to everyone for the comments. |
1:36.4 | And now onto capitalization. |
1:41.2 | First gripes writing with their early Roman alphabet didn't have to choose between uppercase |
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