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Azure Jane Lunatic (Azz) 🌺 ([personal profile] azurelunatic) wrote2003-11-13 11:50 am
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The Grammar Bitch is In

One of my favorites.

Cite: to make reference to something -- more specifically, to give credit to the work you're referencing. "Make sure you cite your sources!"

Site: a place, especially virtual. "I looked up the company's website, then I went down to the construction site."

Sight: visual stuff. "My sight went down for a few hours because I had an eye exam and they put that stuff in my eyes." "Did you see her dress? Now that was one gawdawful sight!"

Note that "That was one gawdawful ____!" can be applied to any of these three words. "That was one gawdawful citation!" would be the proper form for the first, perhaps involving a mangled student paper. "That was one gawdawful site!" could be a botched construction job or someone's mangled HTML or Landover Baptist. "That was one gawdawful sight!" could also refer to some particularly eyewatering website, or to any other eyesore.


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