The next Test the Nation special will be called Test the Nation: Watch Your Language and will challenge participants and viewers to spot common mistakes in spelling and grammar.
Sweet.
Bring it on.
(Er, bring it forthwith.)
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Should be fun to see how I do on this one, I got a 124 on the last. I’m just wondering if they’ll be able to have the range of questions. How will they fill 2 hours with just grammar?
Are you kidding? Two hours of just grammar ain’t nowhere near enough.
when is it on?
There’s less people who care about grammar now.
Those are two of my pet peeves - but both mistakes are easy to make when you’re talking on the fly.
Here’s one that makes me feel plain awkward: “antidotally,” when the person means “anecdotally.” But I guess that isn’t grammar, it’s just wrong.
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