Pet Peeve #17

William Shunn
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The way pedestrians traveling in a group always spread out laterally to block the greatest possible width of sidewalk.

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William Shunn
William Shunn

Hugo and Nebula Award nominee. Creator of Proper Manuscript Format, Spelling Bee Solver, Tylogram, and more. Banned in Canada.

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Haiku

Springtime in Manhattan

Tourists in Times Square Blocking the sidewalk to gape At an ambulance

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Books

Cribbing

Just received another instance of one of my favorite emails. It goes something like this: Hi! You've been such a help and inspiration, I'd like to send you a copy of my new self-published book. I'd really like to read some of your books

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Grammar

Don't Knock It

I was reading a major novel from a major genre publisher last night (okay, it was Half the Blood of Brooklyn by Charlie Huston, from Del Rey), when a character suddenly "knocked" an arrow into his bowstring. Not to knock the book's copy editor, but the

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Grammar

Yet Another Pet Peeve...

...is when someone says "tenant" but means "tenet." A tenant is an inhabitant. A tenet is a principle. The building's tenants adhered to the tenets of Zoroastrianism.

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