Interesting tweets - 2

"Lay" or "lie"? @GrammarGirl clears up any confusion: https://t.co/tJ47CVJIDV #grammar

— AP for Students (@APforStudents) September 16, 2016

Prone:👇 (facing downward)
Supine: 👆 (facing upward)
Prostrate:😲 (lying flat; overcome)https://t.co/WijShiAghF

— Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) September 22, 2016

.@mzinshteyn Eh, that's fine. https://t.co/i8114W72Rt

— Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) September 21, 2016

Few reasonable people still object to 'since' used to mean "because." 'As' might ruffle some feathers, however. https://t.co/lp7XhqIfN0

— Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) September 20, 2016

Hilarious tweets

Ancient grammar police! Funny! http://t.co/cSS7dgVsxU #plainlanguage

— Cntr 4 PlainLanguage (@plain_language) October 31, 2013

The best case ever for the Oxford comma: pic.twitter.com/gDt1gUOfJk

— Aaron Zamost (@zamosta) December 10, 2013

Funny headlines http://t.co/DYUlWSjE3n #plainlanguage

— Cntr 4 PlainLanguage (@plain_language) October 24, 2013

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Use twitter to improve your English

Are you on Twitter? If yes, here is a list of accounts that you might like to follow:

• https://twitter.com/guardianstyle Style guide of the Guardian newspaper. You can ask them questions about word usage.
• https://twitter.com/OxfordWords Oxford dictionaries. They tweet a Word of the Day and links to articles on their website.
• https://twitter.com/awad A Word a Day from www.wordsmith.org.
• https://twitter.com/MerriamWebster Merriam-Webster dictionary. They tweet a Word of the Day.
• https://twitter.com/MacDictionary Macmillan dictionary. They tweet links to their blogposts.
• https://twitter.com/learnglionary  Dictionary of errors. Learn English from your common mistakes. Errors accompanied by corrections and explanations. You can also visit their website http://www.learnglish.net/dictionary/
• https://twitter.com/wordspy Dedicated to neologisms i.e. new words and phrases. Their website is at www.wordspy.com 
• https://twitter.com/grammarmonster As the name suggests, it is about English grammar. Their website is at http://www.grammar-monster.com/
• https://twitter.com/writing_tips Daily tips on grammar, spelling, punctuations and freelance writing. Their website is located at www.dailywritingtips.com
• https://twitter.com/apostropheabuse Gives examples of misuse of the apostrophe.

And why not visit this page to see how good your spellings are: Oxford dictionaries spelling challenge