Aw, yeah. While today’s post isn’t about grammar, per se, it WAS one of the common mistakes mentioned (more than once) by our readers. And it’s fun, so I’m doing it.
I still promise to keep it under one minute.
This is something that peeves a lot of people: mixing up the words awe, aw, ah, and aah!
Awe, as a noun, means a humility-inducing dread, deep honor, or wonder at something or someone.
When I study the immensity of the universe, awe fills my finite little head until it could literally* explode.
Awe can also be a verb. Napoleon Dynamite sure knows how to awe a crowd with his sweet moves.
If you’d like to read more, please visit A Little Red, Inc., my editing blog!
I have to say seeing “awe” on Facebook annoys me to no end, when the author meant “aw.” 🙂
Yes! Me, too. I hope you read the rest of the post, over at the editing blog, because my favorite parts were near the end. 🙂
Click the link, in that last sentence if you like. I should’ve made it clear that this website only got a teaser.