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Wednesday, July 18, 2007 12:00 AM

I hate buzzwords! It's not "carbon," it's "carbon dioxide"

And what about these stupid yellow ribbons everywhere? I hate that too!
By Cary Tennis

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  • Wednesday, July 18, 2007 04:40 PM

    there must be a comma before the "and"

    My pet peeve is people who don't use a comma in a list of things before the word "and." For example, “Today we bought condoms, film, and a bottle of tequila at the corner store.”

    In a recent e-mail I received, someone actually said that a quote had been "illicited" from a vendor...

    —Mike_in_NM Read Mike_in_NM's other letters

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