Come On, You Guyses!

I couldn’t believe my ears. The young woman told her friends, “You guyses help saved my day.” Guyses? C’mon, guys, it’s bad enough to call both women and men guys, but to try to make the plural AND a possessive that way just blew my mind. Why on earth couldn’t she make her life easier and just use “guys'”? Plural possessives are formed — easily — by forming the plural and adding an apostrophe (’).

Honor Your President

In this election year, notice how many times you see the title President spelled with a small “p”. And notice who spells it that way. The Grammar Anarchist prefers to capitalize President when it refers to the top office in the U.S.

While many style manuals support the small “p”, the GA considers it unrespectful (“lacking in respect” as opposed to disrespectful, which would indicate debasement). After all, the term refers to the office, rather than the person who holds it — irrelevant of political preference.