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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

On the Birth and Death of Words

Christopher Shea takes a look at what a group of social scientists and evolutionary theorists—along with the Google Books team—have + more

Grammar Shot

Lowercase or capital letter after a colon? Depends. When it’s used within a sentence, the first word following the colon + more

Turns Out That IS What It’s All About

An alert reader sent in this item today: We breathlessly await confirmation of its authenticity.

Literature as Commodity

There’s something a little creepy about the way the Harry Ransom Center is engaging in literary speculation. As if gobbling + more

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