Kathryn Petras & Ross Petras

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Grammar Rules You Still Have to Follow on Social Media — Reader’s Digest

Affect vs. effect: Those and other words commonly misused by people — AirTalk, NPR affiliate KPCC-Los Angeles

Illusion or allusion? Let these word nerds help save you from these common language mistakes — CBC  Radio

Why your Latin teacher was wrong — The Economist

9 Words and Phrases You’re Probably Using Wrong  — Harvard Business Review

You’re Saying It Wrong — Says You!

Kathryn and Ross Petras talk about commonly misused words — Leonard Lopate At Large

Craft Book Spotlight: That Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means — The Writer

What Is It You’re Trying To Say? — Arkansas Journal-Gazette

Words That Don’t Mean What You Think They Mean — CBC Maritime Noon

A Few Derivative Thoughts About the Word “Unique” — the Stranger

 

 

 

 

 

 

From Asterisk To Zoology, Common Mispronunciations That Trip Us Up  (radio segment) — NPR’s Here and Now

How to Pronounce Everything — the Atlantic

7 Words You Might Be Saying Wrong — Oprah.com

The 150 Most Commonly Mispronounced Words, Explained — Huffington Post

Let’s all get angry about the word gif again — you’ve been pronouncing these words all wrong — New York Daily News

Think you know how to pronounce bruschetta and GIF? Chances are you’re saying it wrong —CBC radio

Newsflash: You’re pronouncing Moët wrong — New York Post

11 Food Names You’re Probably Saying Wrong (You’re not even close on vichyssoise.) — Town and Country

New book aims to settle debate on misused and mispronounced words — CBC News

“You’re Saying It Wrong:” A beginners guide to practical pronunciation (radio segment) — CBC radio

6 Mispronounced Words and Phrases That Make You Look Dumb — Inc.

Dr. Seuss, We’re Pronouncing It All Wrong — Huffington Post Canada

 

 

Krysten Ritter: By the Book — the New York Times Book Review

 

 

 

Schadenfreude Alert! Inside a Collection of Wretched Writing — Time

Pathetic Sex Scenes Written By Politicians And Pundits — Huffington Post

Arise, Ye Wretched! — the American Spectator

It’s All Their: PW Talks Grammar and Ineloquence with Ross and Kathryn Petras — Publishers Weekly

 

Obama, Biden and Snooki: Poets at heart — the Washington Post

Poems by Kanye West, Snooki and … Rex Ryan? — the Newark Star-Ledger

Robert Pattinson, Kanye West, Snooki all part of a new modern poetry book — Hypable

‘Timeless’ poems from Snooki, Kanye — Newsday

 

A Loaf of Bread, a Ton of Cheese and Thou — the New York Times

Bad Poets Who Didn’t Know It — the Washington Post

Poetry So Bad It’s Good — Huffington Post

My Goodness, There Has Been Some Awful Poetry — the Chicago Tribune