Well, if not smart, curiously informed. Trivia is fun, if for no other reason than you feel superior to the rest of us mere mortals. It also can create pet peeves, so beware. Here are a few fun facts to get you through the week:
♦Smokey Bear fights forest fires. Not Smokey the Bear. Or Smokey da Bear.
♦A “jiffy” is 1/100 of a second. See you in a jiffy!
♦When the competition is between two people, the proper expression is “may the better man (woman) win.” When it’s between more than two people, you should say, “may the best man (woman) win.”
♦This is not a grammar rule, so teachers don’t like to hear it, but my favorite way to know when to use “it’s” versus “its” is this: “it’s” is the same as “it is.” Think of the apostrophe as replacing the “i.”
♦Back in the 70s we had “Jive Talking.” That’s not the same as when something doesn’t jibe with you. Yep, it’s “jibe,” not “jive,” for the latter expression.
♦And this is as political as I’ll get…”egghead,” a term with much the same meaning as “geek” or “nerd,” was used by Republican VP candidate Richard Nixon in the 1952 presidential campaign to pejoratively describe Democratic presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson. I’ll leave it to you to compare and contrast political campaigns then and now, and I’m not doing it on this blog. But this could start some conversations for you.
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I love the selection of the picture to kick off the post. It “mooved” me to read the rest! 😀
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Thanks! I thought it set the tone. 🙂
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Ooooh!!! Nice one, Belinda! This is surely helpful, specially for the writers like me!
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Now I’m not sure why this would be helpful to you as a writer, but if it is, then more power to both of us! But I guess as writers it’s the details that make a difference, isn’t it?
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Yes. It’s the details, that is true. But I am also a bit crucial with my grammar mistakes. Maybe because my boss’ critical with my mistakes in writing our clients’ press releases that is why your post is really helpful for me. 🙂
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I’m glad! Once I figured out that it’s/its trick, things were a little easier for in the grammar department. Not an easy department… 🙂
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Yes. A department I tried to ace yet mostly fails! 😀
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Great post! I love reading facts and trivia!
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