Trump fans show worst Facebook grammar; Fiorina fans shine

Fans of Carly Fiorina venting their views on Facebook are far more likely to do so with proper grammar than fans of Donald Trump.

A new study by the folks at the grammar-checking app Grammarly concluded that commenters on Fiorina's Facebook page made an average of 6.3 grammatical and spelling errors per hundred words compared with 12.6 errors per hundred for folks posting on Trump's page.

The grammar used by Ben Carson's Facebook followers ranks up there near Fiorina's at 6.6 errors per hundred words, while Rick Perry's commenters are second worst, at a 12.5 goof rate.

The Cleveland debate may be a great opportunity for Fiorina to shine with other gramfans, even though she is only in the early forum, not the prime-time main event. In a June study, Grammarly found fans of the Cleveland Indians made the fewest errors per hundred words of any team in Major League Baseball. Fans of the New York Mets, which you might figure would overlap with New York-based Trump, were at the bottom of that list as well.

We assume that New Yorkers have a perfectly grammatical two-word response to the Grammarly researchers.

(Grammarly's rankings do not include former Virginia governor Jim Gilmore, a later entry into the presidential race.)