I attended a writing seminar many years ago and the speaker – – who was pontificating from his “I am great” platform – – told the gathering that the use of a semicolon would guarantee a rejection slip. As a long-time semicolon user (and lover), his proclamation scared the bejeezus out of me. Fortunately, the [...]
Grammar
A popular post from last year Would you buy your own products? I heard something yesterday that really got me thinking about this. Someone called into A Way With Words–the National Public Radio show that discusses language, as in regional dialects, slang, word origins, grammar, and weird expressions–and asked about the use of “dog food” [...]
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