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Love this! I am most definitely a grammar nerd 🙂 Thanks for sharing!
Zareena @ The Slanted Bookshelf
Ugh! Irregardless should be removed from the dictionary. 😉 I totally fit the profile with the exception that I’m not in that age bracket and I’m not single. 🙂
Yea those are off for me as well 🙂 Well, and occupation.
LOL I’m not the most grammatically correct person. My biggest problem are run on sentences followed by my use of prepositions.
*problems… see what I mean aboout grammar funk?
Run on sentences are one of my writing issues too.
Well, irregardless is NOT a word, the Oxford comma is beautiful, and semi-colons are perfectly acceptable 🙂 Beautiful infographic!
Irregardless is a weird word to use. Like unthaw. Bugs me. I love the Oxford comma too 🙂 I don’t use semicolons enough, but I like them just fine.