Lovely article on the importance – and limitations – of following punctuation rules from The Guardian. One of the areas I’ve been battling with has been the fact I was born and live in the UK but write with an American audience in mind. I am steeped in the tradition of UK English and have …
Another piece on words, but I feel no sense of shame about that. This time neologisms: new words as announced by a dictionary compiler and reported by The Guardian. Thanks to a certain US political figure (he’s the politician for whom I dare not speak his name) the phrase at the top of the list …
Another fine article reminding us all that language has rules and we should follow them. This time, the alert is offered up by The Guardian. The first thing to say is that there is an irony for the broadsheet, whose nickname has been The Grauniad due to its propensity for typographic errors, to be dispensing …
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