" Itâs a pretty happy day when you get to sit around a table with people who have been your pals since a long time ago and say things to make one another hoot and laugh, sop tears on their cuffs. Somebody told a story that made someone almost spray her beer across the table through her nose. It was a story that hinged on whether a comma belonged inside or outside the quotation marks. On the right kind of night, thereâs just no place more fun than the table where all the English majors are sitting. Lie and lay. Fewer and less. Its and itâs. Their, there, and theyâre. You and me. Hang with the English majors and this stuff gets funny...."
Transcript: AuthorNancyCasey.com/shifty-language/
Music by Kevin MacLeod
date-stamped 9-4-12, but material is not date-specific