tartle (verb; Scottish) To hesitate in recognizing a person or thing. “Good morning, Courtney,” said Aaron cheerfully as he arrived + more
tartle (verb; Scottish) To hesitate in recognizing a person or thing. “Good morning, Courtney,” said Aaron cheerfully as he arrived + more
“Just as much as synthesizers, hairspray and record sleeves in the Russian abstract style,” writes Paul Genders at TLS Online, + more
“No one ever taught me how to write, and I’ve never made a study of writing techniques. So how did + more
Wandering the aisles of Target over the weekend, I came across this curiosity: a section of products developed for the + more
The word lede is essentially journalism jargon for the introductory sentence or paragraph designed either to (a) provide all the + more
Following up on yesterday’s post, here are a couple of of my favorite homophones: discreet and discrete. What makes these particularly fun is that they’re + more
Over at the PBS Newshour website, I came across this: “There is a lot of pressure in academia to tow + more
I subscribe to a lot of daily and weekly newsletters/blogs/rantings, etc. Some for fun. Some for knowledge. Some to just + more
From the very first time I read the Journal of Business, I’ve looked forward to seeing the handiwork of local + more
Regular reader Mike W. (not his real name) has a question: “Is it all right to use alright instead of + more
In his Poetry Notebook (Liveright, 2014), Clive James says that “Man on the Moon” by Australian poet Stephen Edgar is “a perfect + more
I’m usually the first one in the office—sometimes by only 10 minutes or so, sometimes by a full hour. It’s + more
yugen (noun; Japanese) A sense of indescribable depth and profundity. After reading Aaron’s latest blog post, Courtney was suddenly overcome by + more
Grammar got you down? There’s a solution. “We know that grammar lessons alone do not improve writing much, if at + more
It’s Elmore Leonard’s birthday today. He would have been 91. Fifteen years ago Leonard published “Easy on the Adverbs, Exclamation Points + more