Betty Ann Bardell

@BettyAnnBardell

an editor and proposal writer who couldn’t help but notice

Washington, DC metro area
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Joined May 2011
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    19 Sep 2015

    Fire coming down can destroy your house.

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  2. Retweeted
    3 hours ago

    I would congratulate my handful of old friends who never joined Facebook for their foresight, but we lost touch years ago.

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  3. 6 hours ago

    So Dr. King was killed on her 40th birthday.

    Happy birthday to Maya Angelou, born on this day in 1928.
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  4. 6 hours ago

    The name of the program is Flipping Virgins? Is “flipping” a gerund or a participle? Hahaha! Ha! Heh. *slinks away*

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  5. Apr 3

    Is havoc brought about in any way other than wreaking?

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  6. Apr 3

    Copy edit: be either, not either be. But the sentence structure is not the structure I'm worried about this time.

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  7. Apr 1

    Hope everybody's up on that weather vocabulary.

    NOT an joke! Weather Alerts in effect late tonight through tomorrow morning. Higher accumulation totals will be near the Mason-Dixon line. Heavier precipitation rates could cause for some slick spots.
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    Mar 30
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    Ooh. Great coinage: Fauxpology.

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  9. Mar 30

    These signs used to say "flagman ahead."

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  10. Mar 29

    Getting lots of invitations in the mail would stress me out too. Oh -- INTO the mail.

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  11. Retweeted
    Mar 27

    "Utilize" is icky. "Use" is almost always the better word.

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  12. Mar 25

    Welshing, ? I'm surprised at you.

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  13. Mar 24

    "This is not a moment. This is a movement." Beautiful passion from Leslie in Boston.

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  14. Mar 23

    I fix errors in parallel structure almost every day. So now that I'm preparing a show-and-tell, can I find a just-right example? Noooo.

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  15. Mar 22

    Just read a new-to-me eggcorn: I must scrawl before I walk.

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  16. Retweeted
    Mar 22

    “But the constant small mistakes have become symbolic of the larger problems with Trump’s management style, in particular his lack of attention to detail and the carelessness with which he makes policy decisions”

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  18. Mar 21

    The doves are jerks. They don't eat; they just park themselves there so nobody *else* can eat. They are like the people who stand on the Metro with their bags on the seats.

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  19. Mar 20

    Jimmy's colonoscopy on and Stormy v. Cohen on . What a late-night!

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  20. Mar 20

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  21. Mar 19

    I don't want to know what pictures Google would show me if I searched on "pensive."

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