Comments on: On Fox News and Down the Toilet http://nuptialvowels.com/2010/01/12/on-fox-news-and-down-the-toilet/ A blog about writing, editing, grammar, language, and style Tue, 23 Aug 2011 23:10:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: figmentofcogitation http://nuptialvowels.com/2010/01/12/on-fox-news-and-down-the-toilet/#comment-148 Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:31:14 +0000 http://nuptialvowels.com/?p=382#comment-148 This misstatement supports what I already feared about the dismal state of literacy. People don’t read, so instead they repeat what they think they heard. This is the reason people write “I should of” when they mean “I should’ve,” and worry about a friend’s prostrate cancer when in fact, the gland contains no “r.” And surely if the former President had ever read the word “nu-cle-ar,” he would have been able to pronounce it correctly.

~Michelle

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