Osculate my gluteus

http://tampabaygrammargrinch.blogspot.com/2008/02/st-pete-times-womens-grammar-and.html

>What century do those geezers and I'm talking about their wheezy old attitudes, not their chronological ages live in?

I regret to report that Ms. Bancroft has fallen into a grammar felony: subject-verb disagreement. “Do” should be “does”: “What century does.” The grammar checker is good on spotting such subject-verb agreement errors.<

The grammar checker, my dear Vinegartits, is poor at spotting them, as are you. You've mentioned spelling and grammar checkers before, but I've never believed that a teacher with experience of 28 years would rely on them. Your comment alarms me. Your comment indicates that you really do slap some text into a Word document and hit "spellcheck", waiting to pounce on the squiggly green underlined bits. I tried it with Ms Bancroft's sentence, and the green line appeared. God forbid.

The subject-verb agreement in "What century do those geezers and I'm talking about their wheezy old attitudes, not their chronological ages live in?" is correct.

Try pumping this one into your grammar checker. What century does those geezers live in?

When the computer doesn't have all those nasty extra words in between, it is able to work out that "What century do those geezers live in?" is correct. You might be able to as well with a little help.

Rearrange the sentence.
Those geezers do live in what century.
Those geezers does live in what century.

See someone intelligent after class.







>I wrote to Slate and asked why in the hell it let this grammar poseur write prescriptive columns when he didn’t know his ass from his elbow. <

Lee once chastised me for using the word "arse" and wrote that she preferred the elegant "gluteus". Either she is using the "ass from elbow" cliche to sound more like a Valley working girl or she is one.