The past tense of “to lead” is “led”, not “lead”.
I led a horse to water, but I couldn’t make it drink.
Lead baloons go down because they are made of lead. A led balloon will go wherever you lead it.
Now the wrong spelling of “to lose” is loose, I regard that as lost, [...]

Three months ago, I did not know what a comma splice was.  I noticed them from time to time and it usually gave me a mild sense of benevolent superiority.  Now I know what they are, they really bug me.  The irony is that I learned about the comma splice through a blog post that [...]

“Peace Broke Out”.
I’ve heard this a few times, most recently on Radio 4. Peace doesn’t “break out” you idiots.  Peace descends, peace settles, peace comes, peace arrives, peace is attained.  Peace is passive.  (I think there’s a clue in the name).
When people use the phrase “Peace broke out” they are shedding a ray of dullness [...]

Recorded my Dutch cassettes down to minidisc and have been putting in track marks between all the dialogs while walking to work. There was a lengthy monologue about the Dutch royal family and most of it sounded English! There are still lots of words I don’t know but I’m starting to get the [...]