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Return of the Grammar Police

July 22nd, 2008

Dying limbs and lying doo

Since we had so much participation in the last mission of the Grammar Police, I thought it might be fun to post another challenge.  Probably a bit more difficult this time around...

The photograph above shows a recent edition of the front page to my hometown newspaper:  The Shelby Daily Globe.  Aside from the amusing title and subject matter of the featured headline and article (which has its own humorous grammatical nuances), there is one particular grammatical error which can be found not once but twice within the context of the article itself.  It's a classical mistake in the grammar of Shelbians -- so classic, apparently, that even the editor of the local newspaper seems to think it's OK.

But you know better than that, don't you?

So tell me:  which grammatical error can be found in the photograph above?  (You may want to check the larger version of the photograph here, to get a better look).  Again, bonus points will be rewarded if the first person to correctly identify the mistake is a non-American.  Triple bonus points if it's a native Shelbian. :-)

This entry is filed under Ohio, Linguistics, Language, English.

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