June 23--English teachers of Chicago-area baseball fans can be proud today after a grammar study by Grammarly and the Wall Street Journal gave White Sox and Cubs fans high marks.
Well, at least White Sox and Cubs fans who comment on their team's official web sites.
After Grammarly and WSJ looked at the web sites of all 30 teams and analyzed "the top 150 comments for spelling, grammar and punctuations errors." They found White Sox fans finished third in fewest errors per 100 words (4.8) while Cubs fans finished fifth (5.2).
The study did not cite any specific "top comments," though apparently White Sox fans can spell Samardzija with few problems and Cubs fans know where to insert the apostrophe in "Let's Go."
Indians fans were deemed as the best in the game with only 3.6 errors per 100 words, while Mets fans were the worst at 13.9 errors per 100. Of course, this could just mean Indians, White Sox and Cubs fans know how to use spellcheck better than other fans.
Royals fans, currently stuffing the e-ballot box for MLB's All-Star game, finished 27th with 12.4 errors per 100 words. No one said you had to know how to spell Moustakas to vote for him.
Incidentally, the press release from Grammarly read "the Cleveland Indians score a home run making the fewest mistakes," which suggests Grammarly knows grammar but not baseball.
