It's New Year's day. Hence it is the first day of the new year, possessive. It is not: Happy New Years -- plural. I'm watching channel 4 news, and Don Shelby said, "Happy New YEARS" How does a journalist, presumably schooled in grammar and vocabulary, screw that up? The word, "sloppy" comes to mind. Oh, another: Lazy...lazy language skills. Such a disappointment.
It is 2010 and the debate is: How will you say that? Twenty-ten? Or two thousand and ten? I will say two thousand ten since I'm not a short-cut kind of girl. However I do believe when it's 2162, I'll say: twenty-one sixty-two.
I'm not much for New Year's (see this is possessive!) resolutions. Last year's was to get my passport. I got the paperwork filled out, but that's where I left it. Does that count? I could say the obvious: find a job, go back to school, exercise and lose weight. But frankly, those go without saying. Friends and previously, neighbors, moved into their new home this year; their first. And we have yet to go see their accomplishment. I am resolved to go visit this great feat. How's that?
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment