My husband is fluent in geek. He’s a software engineer, so he obviously learned it on the job. But I’m sharing his secrets, so you can learn to speak geek too.
My husband is fluent in geek. He’s a software engineer, so he obviously learned it on the job. But I’m sharing his secrets, so you can learn to speak geek too.
Get ready to have your mind blown. I’m about to share five obscure punctuation marks that you’ve always needed in your life but never knew existed.
They say that every mistake is a learning opportunity in disguise. If that’s true, I once had a doozy of an opportunity. And it came with a hefty price tag.
With Halloween coming up, I’m going to reveal something spooky. I hear dead people.
On a flight home from grading hundreds of the 280,000 five-paragraph essays submitted for the Advanced Placement Test in English + more
The most recent edition of the Oxford English Dictionary—the 600,000-word “Victorian phenomenon” that is, in fact, my favorite lexical record—was + more
Those who spend any amount of time around me know that I don’t suffer pretentious writers gladly. Like people who + more
So what’s the story with backstory? Though I’ve never particularly liked the word—bit on the redundant side, isn’t it?—I’m fine + more
The inestimable Matt Labash has some advice for all you would-be writers out there. “Read more than you write,” he + more
There are two reasons to post a link to this story. First, €2.6 million is a cracking bargain. Second, if + more
“Good writers make you want to read,” writes Matt Labash, “but great writers make you want to write. To ride + more
I’ve been banging this drum for some time now—and it appears that the eggheads are finally on my side. From + more
cupidity (noun) Excessive desire, especially for wealth; covetousness or avarice. [Middle English cupidite, from Old French, from Latin cupiditas, from cupidus, + more
With apologies to the missus, who professed to be “oogling” something this morning,* the correct word is ogle, pronounced oh-guhl. + more
While my official title is “senior copywriter,” part of my job involves editing or proofreading others’ words—work that has done + more