Do you think that this woman should have lost her job?
Her intention was good...I suppose. She wanted her students to come up with a creative essay with very certain requirements of writing + English: gerunds, three infinitives and three participle and of course be grammatically correct...
The Oxford Dictionary last week has added a new list of words to the official list. We asked listeners exactly what they thought these words meant and the answers were of course, hilarious, random, shocking at points and all over the board...
If you're reading this, you're probably not giving it too much thought, but maybe you should because the English language is fraught with pitfalls that make our ability to master the written word as impressive as our getting a man on the moon.