The more you learn about the English language, the more you see words and grammatical rules that simply don’t make sense. We write but know not to pronounce the letter “K” in some situations, we use synonyms for no reason other than to be wordy and we use homonyms despite how confusing they can be. [...]
Sometimes I just don’t want to write. I wake up in the morning, sit at my desk and fire up my computer to get started on whatever writing projects await me and my fingers simply won’t get going. Given that I typically write for clients with deadlines, this lack of professionalism from my fingers just [...]
Once in a while, during casual reading or conversation, a word will be offered up by one party that confounds even the wordiest of writers. For me, such an occasion inevitably leads to a mental note to Google that word at my earliest opportunity, leading me, from time to time, to fantastic new additions to [...]
The Associated Press Stylebook may caution against its use but the digital era of communication is causing the ampersand, that beautiful textual knot that we use to quickly denote “and” in a sentence, to be put to work more than ever by the general public. Like all tales from the realm of linguistic history, the [...]
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