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It’s F-Word Friday From Now On

The F-word
F-word

Recently, in English class, I had the kids proofreading sentences.

One little girl piped up, “The F-word needs to be capitalized.”

Um…well…yeah…sort of.

The F-word that she was referring to was Friday.

And yes, we do need to capitalize the days of the week.

Technically, she was right.

A proper noun does require a capital letter.

But I wasn’t about to explain the nuanced meaning of the F-word to her.

The teacher in me was professional.

But my inner, immature, 12-year-old self was giggling uncontrollably.

It’s called F-word Friday from now on.

Liz Brenner

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Grima! I Will Make Great Use Of This New Word

Grima

Grima

Grima!

Today is National Proofreading Day.

I was going to discuss the misuse of apostrophes.

It drives me stark, raving crazy.

I wanted to say that the abuse of this particular punctuation mark is, to me, like nails on a chalkboard.

But I realized that this phrase is dated.

No one uses chalkboards anymore.

I researched a more modern way to say it.

And I learned the word “grima.”

It’s of Spanish origin, and it means, “that terrible feeling you get when you hear nails on a chalkboard.”

Who knew there was a word for it?

Where has this word been all my life?

I absolutely could have used this word back in the day.

At any rate, I am no longer so annoyed at apostrophes.

Go ahead and misuse them.

It will give me the opportunity to use my new word.

“Grima!”

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