Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Sleigh - slay

Saw this posted on Facebook:   "OMG you sleigh me girl."
First, the word mistake:
sleigh = a sled drawn by a horse or reindeer.
slay = to kill violently; the slang use of the word means to overwhelm, as with laughter.
Second, the punctuation:
As a teacher, I want to tell her to put a comma after "OMG" and after "me."  Actually, if she's that excited, the sentence probably also needs an exclamation point.
Correctly written and punctuated, the sentence would read: "OMG, you slay me, girl!"

Sleigh and slay are homophones.

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