A question that I get now and then is whether W is ever a vowel. At first, I was…

Olympics season is nearly upon us. Athletes in more than 150 countries are preparing for some of the most significant…

People sometimes ask me about the difference between a colon and a dash since they can both be used to…

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! To help you get closer to your Irish heritage or simply celebrate as if you were…

Patrick C. asked,”When discussing a Constitutional Amendment, is it instead a ‘constitutional amendment’?” “Constitutional” is lowercase because it is an…

Barbara wants to know how to deal with “you” when it’s part of a compound subject or the compound object…

Ron M. wrote, “The phenomenon of using the word ‘verse’ instead of ‘versus’ seems relatively recent, but to this 56…

When you end a sentence with an abbreviation, you don’t need an extra period. Apple Computer, Inc. became Apple, Inc..…

Today’s topic is sentence fragments. I often imagine that listeners are writing long things such as articles, essays, and books;…

The Churches, the Foxes, and the Marshes I was deluged with questions after last week’s newsletter about making names plural.…