If you’re into sports, entertainment, politics, the news — you encounter commentators all the time. Heck, even the spelling bee…
This is a story about how a city got its curious name and what it means to be a namesake.…
As we recently discussed in our tight writing segment in episode 940, it is important to have a strong BLUF…
Sometimes people run afoul of standard grammar if they use the word “borrow” when they should have used “lend” or…
My tip-a-day-book, “The Grammar Daily,” is coming out November 24, and I’m currently encouraging people to preorder it — and…
We recently published a podcast and article on our website about tight writing, and an astute listener asked a follow-up…
How old is the @ symbol? Every source I found seemed to have a different date for the origin of…
In today’s episode we’re going to answer some bizarre and puzzling questions: Can two people share a life? Can two…
Anxious “Anxious” means “worried or uneasy,” but it has often been used somewhat interchangeably with the word “eager,” to…
Trent Armstrong (our former Modern Manners Guy) sent me a picture of a sign that mixed up the words “personal”…