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Two weeks ago, we talked about comma splices—errors that happen when you join two main clauses with just a comma–but…
Back in April after the style guide updates that came out of the American Copy Editors Society meeting, I told…
I used to be a terrible cook. One problem was that I would get distracted and end up burning things…
In last week’s podcast, we talked about how Captain R.F. Scott’s sick ponies might have been a harbinger of the…
Language is one of the most remarkable characteristics that separates humans from other animals. Despite the many remarkable abilities of…
Today’s episode is about parts of speech and the interesting gray area between prepositions and adverbs. Let’s start with the…
Most sources say that the correct past tense is pleaded. Squiggly pleaded guilty. That dirty rotten scoundrel. Garner’s Modern…
When not only is followed by but also (or simply but), it’s considered good form to make sure the parts…
Capital "Capital" refers a city that is the seat of government for its region or is important in some way. …
This week’s Radiolab podcast was about a strange Olympic badminton match in which both teams were trying to lose instead of…