Pop quiz time! And no, I don’t want to hear any complaining.
There are certain words in the English language that seem to cause massive confusion, mostly because they are pronounced the same or nearly the same. But each is spelled differently and has a distinctly different meaning.
In each of the fo[......]
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Episode 3 – Pop Quiz Show
Episode 2 – To Cap or Not to Cap
Over the past few days, I participated in an impromptu editors’ discussion (via email) on the rules for capitalization of titles. We were trying to reach a consensus in terms of our in-house standard (we all work for a small publisher).
Titles such as president and secretary general can cause much c[......]
Episode 1 – To Infinitively Split…
If you play Trivial Pursuit, you know about the grammatical error featured in the opening credits of Star Trek. The famous line “to boldly go where no man has gone before” contains the split infinitive “to boldly go” (where the adverb “boldly” splits the infinitive “to go”). While the line remains m[......]
