A few weeks back I posted an article called Everything's Obvious...unless it Isn't! So when I spotted these fabulous Friends of Irony pictures, I just had to post them for Friday Funnies!
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Looking around through YouTube, I found this video done by an 8th grade class illustrating commonly misused words. Mostly these are misspellings, but I thought it was cute and fit right in with my weekly Word Wednesday's misused words theme. This might be a great video to show your kidlings.
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According to Merriam Webster:
irony, noun
Definition of IRONY
1: a pretense of ignorance and of willingness to learn from another assumed in order to make the other's false conceptions conspicuous by adroit questioning —called also Socratic irony
2 a : the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning"
According to Friday Funnies:
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The last several weeks, I've been talking about some words that are intentionally misused, words used to decieve. This week, I'd like to focus on some of the most commonly (and unintentionally) misused words. Some people seem to want to add to a word: Toward has no s at the end, though it must seem incomplete to some because you often see it used like this, "I went towards the gate." Anyway also has no ending s. It is incorrect to say that you don't like purple, though you'd take a purple car anyways. Some want to delete part of a word: You aren't supposed to omit the d. You weren't suppose to. The same goes for the phrase used...
Today is National Punctuation Day! To celebrate punctuation on this fine Friday Funny day, I've been searching for the funniest picture, joke or YouTube video I could find. I kept coming back to Victor Borge.
I've posted Phonetic Punctuation before on Communication FUNdamentals, but this is a different version and the biggest belly laugh I could provide you on this fine, fun, and completely fabulous day! So without any further ado, I give you--
Happy "National Punctuation Day!"
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