March 4 is National Grammar Day, so I have a special top-10 show to celebrate the occasion, and before you…
“Cannot” and “can not” might seem like they mean the same thing, but you use them in different ways. ‘Cannot’…
It’s hard to say when last names were first used, but it’s easy to group many last names into certain…
Today’s lesson involves a question of Cathy’s—or should that be “a question of Cathy”? By the end of this podcast,…
? Wrong Word affect/effect, lay/lie, sit/set, who/whom, toward/towards, etc. ? Vague Pronoun Reference Confusing: Bob annoyed Larry, but that didn’t stop him…
The Churches, the Foxes, and the Marshes I was deluged with questions after last week’s newsletter about making names plural.…
Marlene asked whether she should write “one year’s time” or “one-years’ time.” The correct way to give possession to time…
I decided to write about comma splices because my friend Scott Sigler has a book coming out this week, Ancestor, published…
Several listeners have written with questions on when to use the definite article “the,” the indefinite article “a,” or neither.…
Today’s topic is “ain’t” and a few other troublesome contractions. To quote the famous opening lines of the first-ever talking…