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Homophone Alert!

Over at the PBS Newshour website, I came across this: “There is a lot of pressure in academia to tow + more

Always Relevant

I subscribe to a lot of daily and weekly newsletters/blogs/rantings, etc. Some for fun. Some for knowledge. Some to just + more

Funny Business

From the very first time I read the Journal of Business, I’ve looked forward to seeing the handiwork of local + more

Stop! Grammar time!

Regular reader Mike W. (not his real name) has a question: “Is it all right to use alright instead of + more

Poetry Break

In his Poetry Notebook (Liveright, 2014), Clive James says that “Man on the Moon” by Australian poet Stephen Edgar is “a perfect + more

Words of Wisdom

I’m usually the first one in the office—sometimes by only 10 minutes or so, sometimes by a full hour. It’s + more

Word of the Day

yugen (noun; Japanese) A sense of indescribable depth and profundity. After reading Aaron’s latest blog post, Courtney was suddenly overcome by + more

Better Writing through Reading

Grammar got you down? There’s a solution. “We know that grammar lessons alone do not improve writing much, if at + more

“If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.”

It’s Elmore Leonard’s birthday today. He would have been 91. Fifteen years ago Leonard published “Easy on the Adverbs, Exclamation Points + more

Quote of the Day

William F. Buckley, Jr., April 14, 1973: I guess I was seven when I first heard the maxim that only + more

A Tale of Two Theories

“Grammar is credibility,” says Amanda Sturgill, PhD, associate professor of communications at Elon University. “If you’re not taking care of + more

“I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.”

Is a robot gunning for your job? If you’re a telemarketer, it’s already happening. And if you’re a bank teller, + more

I got rhythm, I got music…

In an interview published in the Spring-Summer 1957 issue of the Paris Review, Truman Capote, referring to the short stories + more

This isn’t a blog; it’s a collection of curated posts.

Remember back in June when I used this space to rail against the misuse of the word curate and its various + more

Can You Trust Your Dictionary?

“Alone of the four cardinal virtues,” writes Christopher Ricks in Dylan’s Visions of Sin (Penguin, 2003), “fortitude does not go in for an + more

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