Okay crops up a lot in fiction writing, particularly in dialogue and first-person narrative. Where does it come from, and how should it be spelled? (more…)
There’s really no need for me to make a lengthy post about the semicolon; The Guardian has done it for me.
I can, at least, single out the paragraph that actually explains how to use it: (more…)
Nobody knows how to spell email. You might say, ‘nobody knows how to spell e-mail,’ but you’d be wrong. Or would you?
The issue of email vs. e-mail clearly raises blood pressures across the world. At the time of writing, the spelling question is right at the top of the Wikipedia article on e-mail. Meanwhile, a group calling itself the Email Experience Council has declared the official term to be email. They’ve even got a petition (more…)
Irregardless is a word that people love to hate. In fact, many would say that it isn’t a word at all, but rather the hideous result of a collision between irrespective and regardless (more…)
