An exciting development in political punctuation!
In the waning days of this presidential election season, the two major campaigns are doing everything they can to squeeze out every last vote. It's an exciting time in American…
A heaping helping of alphabet soup
I had a boss once who hated acronyms and abbreviations so much that he even discouraged us from using FBI. "Alphabet soup," he called it. I get it. It can…
The view from the other side of the AP story
At some point earlier this year, I buckled up the tool belt and went to work on this old house in Colorado to prepare it for selling. Not too long…
A proofreading font?
Distributed Proofreaders is a site to "help ease the conversion of public domain books into e-books" in the mission of "preserving the literary history of the world in a freely…
Schadenfreude is the best word ever
I used to keep a sticky note at my desk called "Words I Hate." These were words that I would run across in the course of my editing that I,…
Chicago poetry
It's possible that I don't like poetry because I can't write poetry. Every time I've tried to write poetry, the result has been sad and terrible. It's possible that it's…
Pubic err
The Red Lion Area School District in Pennsylvania has issued an apology for a typo on a recent sports banner. Best line: "We apologize for the error and the concerns…
Sometimes spelling is extra important
I'm usually not one to get too twisted up over language errors and typos and such. English is hard, and mistakes will happen. I might have even made some myself…
Why does Obama hate English?
The president of the United States visited Reddit the other day and chatted up the Internets. Of course during the talk, there just had to be some doofuses chime in…
Nothingburger. With cheese.
I keep coming across words I've never heard before. Have I been living in a cave? Seriously. Today's great discovery is nothingburger. Mary Matalin, the Republican strategist probably best known…