Can you Speel It?
Courtesy, as pretty much always, of Bryan A. Garner, here’s a list of 25 of the most commonly misspelled words…
Courtesy, as pretty much always, of Bryan A. Garner, here’s a list of 25 of the most commonly misspelled words…
A character in a book I’m reading right now uses a nasty sort of corporate speak in which he actually…
Last September, I wrote a post in which I cited Strunk and White’s Elements of Style on omitting needless words.…
I’ve run across a lot of misuse of “amount” lately and thought I’d give a quick tip for when to…
Photo by Flickr user http://www.worththewhisk.com I believe it’s generally known that “can” is the favored verb when asking about whether…
A dangling modifier is a grammatical construction in which a modifying word or phrase is placed at too great a…
The native English speakers among this blog’s readers will recognize the following little nursery rhyme: Star light, star bright, The…
I’ve avoided it so far, since it’s something of a holy war, but I thought I’d stir the grammatical pot…
A reader responded to my post about irregular verbs last week to express confusion about when to use “awake” and…
I’ve written a couple of posts about tricky irregular verbs such as lead and lie/lay. Today I ran across a…
Someone recently commented on an old post about the use of “who” and “whom” to ask which of these two sentences…
No fewer than four times this week, I’ve run across the word “lead” used by smart and even bookish people…