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8 J. L. 89 (2018)
The Year 2017 in Grammar, Language, and Writing

handle is hein.journals/joolaw8 and id is 95 raw text is: Bryan A. Garnert The Year 2017 in Grammar, Language, and Writing January A school employee in Maryland was fired for correcting a student's spelling on Twitter. The student had tweeted to suggest that the Frederick County public schools should be closed tammarow. The district's media-services coordinator, Katie Nash, responded: But then how would you learn to spell 'tomorrow'? :) Apparently, this wasn't Nash's first such interaction with a student: disapproving of the tone of an earlier tweet, her supervisor had already directed her to stop tweeting. Hence for this tweet she was fired, despite her response's garnering thousands of retweets and likes - and spawning two hashtags: #Katiefrom- FCPS and #freekatie. * The Guardian (U.K.) reported that Australia's Macquarie Dictionary named fake news its word of the year for 2016, defining the term as either disinformation and hoaxes published on websites for political purposes or to drive web traffic or the incorrect information being passed along by social media. The choice jibed with picks of other dictionaries for 2016, including Oxford Dictionaries'post-truth and Merriam-Webster's surreal. * BBC.com pos- tulated that identifying untranslatable emotions might lead to a richer and fuller emotional life. Tim Lomas, lecturer at the University of East London, t Bryan A. Garner is the author of dozens of books about words and their uses, including Garner's Modern English Usage (Oxford, 4th ed. 2016). He is editor in chief of Blacks Law Dictionary (West, 10th ed. 2014) and the author of the chapter on grammar and usage in the Chicago Manual of Style (Chicago, 16th ed. 2010). He coauthored two books with Justice Antonin Scalia: Making Your Case (2008) and Reading Law (2012). Copyright © 2018 Bryan A. Garner. 8 JOURNAL OF LAW (ALMANAC EXCERPTS) 89

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