English for Today by Ganiu Abisoye Bamgbose (Dr GAB)
Important S’s
Everyone is amazed about his ~rag-to-riches~ story (nonstandard).
Everyone is amazed about his *rags-to-riches* story (standard).
You use rags to riches to describe the way in which someone quickly becomes very rich after they have been quite poor.
They have been at loggerhead for some days (nonstandard).
They have been at loggerheads for some days (standard).
If two or more people or groups are at loggerheads, they disagree very strongly with each other.
GAB
