Monday, December 21, 2015

autobiography/biography: Common Errors in English Usage Entry for Monday, December 21, 2015

autobiography/biography 
When you write the story of your own life, you write an autobiography; but when you write the story of someone else’s life, it’s just a plain old biography.

 


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In Paul Brians’ latest blog post he tracks his recent appearance in the New York Times.

This week on the podcast, it’s the magi(c) of Christmas.

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This is the tenth year of the Common Errors in English Usage calendar. To celebrate, we are bringing back some of our favorite interesting, funny, but sometimes merely silly entries through the years before going on hiatus in 2016.

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