Style matters
I love style guides. I really do. I love comparing and contrasting different guides and different styles. The fact that style guides...
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#WORDCRIMES EVERYBODYSHUTUP
I like to help and encourage people to write better, clearer English. This, I believe, is best done in a supportive and encouraging way....
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Singalong a simile
The articles from the New Yorker and the Wall Street Journal that I posted a while back were, I thought at least, pretty good fun. But...
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In praise of American English
US English gets a bit of a bad press this side of the Atlantic. I guess we smug Brits tend to assume that, as we have Shakespeare and we...
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