I don’t know who needs to hear this, but “antifa” is short for “antifascism.”
Trust me, I’m a copy editor.
I’d tell you what “Proud Boys” is short for, but this is a family-friendly Twitter account.
Apparently all you have to do is tweet the word "antifa" and alarms go off in moms' basements across this great nation of ours.
There's no truth to the rumor that it's short for "I'm not Proud of this, but I'll do it if you promise not to tell any of the other Boys."
Usually I sweep the responses to a tweet like this and go on a blocking spree, but this pathetic group of rote-trolling ninnies is scarcely worth the effort.

COME ON, KIDS, PUT YOUR BACKS INTO IT.
I don't have a soundcloud, so learn the difference between "your" and "you're" and "its" and "it's" and we'll call it square, OK?
Oh, fine, buy my book.
Also, "gif" is pronounced with a hard g.

What else do ya wanna know?
Also, if you want to irritate people and be correct at the same time (one of my favorite combos), pronounce the noun "forte" as "fort."
AND THERE'S A SK SOUND IN THE MIDDLE OF BRUSCHETTA, NOT A SH.
Also, anybody who says clark is a jark.
[cc @BebeNeuwirth, who didn’t just slay in Chicago]

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Oct 3, 2023
Before I abandon either this benighted website or this mortal coil, whichever comes first, I'm going to make sure that you all learn when the question mark goes inside the closing quote mark and when it goes outside.
You were all well taught that a question (and question mark) in dialogue are set like this:

Adelaide lamented, "How many times can I be expected to get off at Saratoga?"

Right?

Right.
But when the question mark is part of the overall sentence but not part of the quoted matter, it goes outside:

Did you really mean to say "ain't" when you might have said "isn't"?

Right?

Also right.
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Jun 17, 2023
Of course there’s no feminine for “cuckold.” Why would anyone have thought that a woman’s being cheated on was worthy of a special derogatory term?
What’s the feminine of “cuckold”?

I dunno, “wife”?
Though “laughingstock” is good enough for the likes of either Schlapp.
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I can't right now think of another once-strict rule of English that's gone so utterly forgotten/ignored than the differentiation between "will" and "shall."
"This is how you use 'will' and 'shall' in the first person, but in the third person you use them in precisely the opposite fashion...."

That's not a rule. That's a trap.
Or is it first and second person? Not much remembering (or caring enough to look it up).
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Jun 17, 2023
I still think of the time a leading American academic who posts here frequently and has a massive following plagiarized another twitterer's very clever joke down to the comma.
The "remove this follower" button is such a treat.
The originator of the joke called the plagiarizer out on it, as did numerous others.

Crickets.

1.3 million followers and counting...
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Goodbye to the incomparable Glenda Jackson. ImageImageImageImage
I saw Glenda Jackson onstage five times, starting with Rose back in 1981 and then her Lady Macbeth (with her and Christopher Plummer in two completely different plays), Lear in London, Three Tall Women, and Lear in NYC.

It was always an event. Image
It was not unamusing, on my way to London to see her in Lear in 2016 for her first time onstage in a quarter century, to explain my excitement to younger and savvy colleagues who had never so much as heard of her.
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OK, that made me want to vomit.

#HocusPotus
Dude's name still isn't spelled Jeryd, for pete's sake, but otherwise that was brilliant if by brilliant you mean it was like getting my hand caught in a garbage disposal for an hour.
Really hoping that next week Gerri will push Roman off the Edge observation deck at Hudson Yards.
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