This article was on Cracked.com a couple of days ago, and I thought everyone might get a kick out of it (because it's Cracked, borderline-offensive material does appear, and it's probably NSFW, just FYI):
7 Commonly Corrected Grammar Errors (That Aren't Mistakes)
The author includes a nod to the long battle between the prescriptivists and the descriptivists, which the descripitivists keep winning, as well as picking up the performative technique of including grammar mistakes throughout the article like we saw Joseph Williams use in The Phenomenology of Error at the beginning of the semester.
The article takes an approach Crystal would approve of, for the most part, as it's examining how many of these so-called "grammar mistakes" that part of the population gets up in arms about have been used in common language for centuries.
But he does throw in a rather Trussian barb to apostrophe abusers at the end.
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