No one noticed it’s is used twice but with two very different meanings?
From Raymond Blanc: The Very Hungry Frenchman
From the George W. Bush School of Grammar
CourseSmart, a purveyor of overpriced digital textbooks that aren’t worth the electrons they’re printed on, pretends that they are not threatened by Apple’s recent iPad-based textbooks initiative. CS should be scared if their press release is any indication of their competence. Snipped from GigaOM.
Dey Toke Our Gramar
A new one: Toke as the past tense of take. Not a typo since Louie does this twice.
English Teacher Needs to Learn English

Lightening means to make light or lighter. Lightning is the quick discharge of electrons. The inclusion of “is a” in the first sentence is unnecessary.
Feint is a deceptive action. You can’t deceive a heart. The idiom is “faint of heart.”
Fly-by-night is describing term, so it should be hyphenated as an adjective phrase, but, really, stop with the clichés. You wouldn’t let your students turn in papers filled with clichés, would you? Wait . . . please don’t answer that.
How this “university” remains accredited is beyond me.
I’m Speechless
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