People have suggested at times that the “Horribly Wrong” team is just a bit too snarky, and a bit too nit-picky. In the interest of fair play, we invite you to submit examples of that from previous columns. Submit to eliot@eliotkleinberg.com!

No hyphen in “ice water.” More importantly — and we’ve pointed out this before — some probes are identical. So it should be, “not all probes are identical.”

Again: “p.m.” and “tonight” are the same thing. Pick one.

Again: This literally says $15 billion dollars dollars.

Again: Unique is an absolute. You can’t be more unique than anyone else.

When you use bullet points, they must be consistent. The first two are commands. So the rest must be as well. We also have cleaned up various grammar and punctuation mistakes. So:

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From the Rules Committee: Recently, a TV newscast referred to Russia’s “ongoing invasion” of Ukraine. We ask: Doesn’t an invasion happen only once? The Rules Committe'e’s Lou Ann Frala opines: “Seems to me there should be another word for the post-invasion period. ‘Ongoing occupation.’ ‘Ongoing war.’ ‘Ongoing conflict.’ ‘Ongoing onslaught.’ They had better options.“

And we go to the video archives for Segment 42: Unforced errors.

Readers: "Something Went Horribly Wrong" features samples of bad writing we see nearly every day. You can participate! Be our duly deputized “grammar police.” Your motto: “To protect and correct.” Send in your photos of store signs, street signs, menus, TV news graphics, newspaper headlines, tweets, and so on. It doesn’t have to be a grammatical error. It can be just what we call “cowardly writing.” Include your name and home town so we properly can credit you. You're free to add a comment, although we reserve the right to edit or omit. Now get out there! Send to Eliot@eliotkleinberg.com

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