Grammar
Knowledge Ghettos
Part of my attraction to grammar has to do with what might be called "knowledge ghettos." The idea is that, on certain subjects, everyone can be divided into two groups: “experts” and
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Book Deal!
- I'm excited to announce that this week my agent and I struck a deal with Ten Speed Press for a new book, tentatively titled "The One-Sentence Solution" (though I now think I have some b
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Writing 'Wrongs'
- Here's an excerpt from a post today at Abs
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Comma Curiosities in the New Yorker
- I noticed recently some rather curious comma choices in the New Yorker. Specifically, its editors seem to prefer to set off with commas prepositional phrases of "in" + a year.
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Spellcheck Sticks It to Another Writer
- A story I'm proofing about home electronics contains the sentence*:
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- A story I'm proofing about home electronics contains the sentence*:
Moments in Copy Editing
Came across this sentence while copy editing yesterday:
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Words I'm Looking Up (One in an occasional cleverly named series on words I'm looking up)
- alumnus
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- alumnus
Justice for Grammarphiles
- A survey by an organization called Goose Grade has found that if your b
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Hatemail: Depravation, God and Grammar
It’s a funny day. The fog gathered around my house this morning, turning everything gray and soft. Now the sun has broken through, but inside my head it still feels gray and soft.
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Wonderings and Googlings (Wherein I wonder about words, then I google them)
There are some things = 7.19 million hits
There's some things = 711,000 hits- Continue Reading » 5 Comments