Grammar I

Occasionally, I’ll be posting my grammatical pet peeves; common mistakes that I think should be avoided. Here are three:

1. When two ideas or people seem to work well together, they jibe — they do not jive.
2. When you change course, you take a new tack — not a new tact. It’s a sailing term.
3. When you address your Christmas card to my family, it’s The Joneses — not The Jones’ or The Jones’s or, my personal favorite, The Jones.