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Shoulda Paid Attention in High School English

Kyle Wiens, CEO of iFixit and founder of the software company Dozuki, administers a grammar test to all prospective employees. + more

Sticks and Stones

Rarely do we get political here at the last word, but this is really too much. I know, I know. + more

Speaking Truth to Power

Academics don’t write to be read; they write to be published, says Barton Swaim. As to why their writing is + more

This Just In: People Are Smarter than You Think

This is an old post, but it’s worth revisiting. Turns out people care about good writing. Who knew? Via Grammar + more

It was a dark and stormy night…

The winners of the 2012 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest have been announced. Though this year’s entries seem, on balance, to be + more

Flabby or Fit? Take the WritersDiet™ Test!

No doubt using a series of insanely complicated algorithms engineered by the finest minds of our generation, this meticulously calibrated diagnostic + more

Best Typo EVER

And it’s in section A-1 of today’s Los Angeles Times. Earlier in my career, the sight of something like this + more

Stop! Grammar Time!

Clever mnemonics to help you remember the difference between pore and pour. A brief history of the failed attempts to + more

The Seductive Semicolon

Great post by Ben Dolnick. “To use a semicolon properly can be an act of faith,” he writes. “It’s a + more

Me, Myself, and I

You hear a lot of folks say things like, “For the best back wax ever, just give Betty or myself + more

Ewww

An alert reader sent us this story about the Lyndon B. Johnson School of…well, perhaps you’d better read it yourself. + more

Preaching Comma Sense

Ben Yagoda offers up some helpful comma pointers in yesterday’s New York Times. Bonus: he uses “gobsmacked” in a sentence—a word + more

Wow

The first World Palindrome Champion was crowned last month. (For those of you less inclined toward word geekery, a palindrome + more

Sign of the Times

As Archaeologists of the future sift through the shattered remains of our once great and glorious culture, they’ll no doubt + more

“Dude” Abides

“This is a very complicated case, Maude. You know, a lotta ins, a lotta outs, a lotta what-have-yous. And, uh, + more

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