I hope you’ve sent your cards and gifts, friends. Today is the big day!
Write well (not good), write often (not alot), be careful (not carfull), and check your work twice. Just to be safe, have someone else read it. Bad grammar can cost you!
Deanne Schulz tipped me to a story from 2006 (before this blog’s birth). It’s just as timely today. Globe and Mail reported a story about a grammatical error that cost Rogers Communications (Canada’s AT&T) more than $2 million CAD.
Rogers had signed a contract with a company known as Aliant, Inc. to string communications lines across thousands of poles in the Maritimes. Rogers would pay Aliant about (aboot in Canadian) $9.60 CAD for each pole. Rogers was happy.