11 Historical Figures Who Were Really Bad At Spelling
Would you recoil in terror if spell-check ever stopped working? Fear not: You're in good company.
Would you recoil in terror if spell-check ever stopped working? Fear not: You're in good company.
The answer: Really bizarre.
You may know how to spell “victory,” but here are 25 things you might not know about the country’s best-known gathering of logophiles.
The one space-versus-two space debate rages on.
A lawsuit that hinged on the lack of a serial comma in a state law has been settled. For the anti-comma crowd, it wasn't cheap.
These British reformers wanted to ditch "i before e" for something a little simpler. Who could blame them?
Every dialect has a grammar.
The teacher admitted it didn't belong in a workbook for kindergartners.
It would be "more of a crime" to leave incorrect punctuation standing, the man told a reporter.
It may seem unnecessary at times, but the Oxford comma is only here to help.
It can be shocking to realize that we are able to follow rules that no one ever taught us explicitly.
You know this rule, even if you don't know you know it.
"You'd better slow down and use the right pronoun." -Weird Al
Because sometimes, periods, commas, colons, semi-colons, dashes, hyphens, apostrophes, question marks, exclamation points, quotation marks, brackets, parentheses, braces, and ellipses won't do.
Because sometimes, periods, commas, colons, semi-colons, dashes, hyphens, apostrophes, question marks, exclamation points, quotation marks, brackets, parentheses, braces, and ellipses won't do.
Proselint edits your writing based on the advice of some of the world's best writers and grammar authorities.
The British government thinks kids these days are overusing exclamation marks, and they’ve decided to take a stand!
As you become a more sophisticated writer (and reader), you realize that many grammar rules are better ignored.
What do you do when you run into your friend on their birthday? You wish them a happy birthday, of course! Or wait—you wish … him or her a happy birthday? When you run into your friend on … his or her birthday? That's how you’re supposed to say it if you
It turns out you can learn a lot by analyzing the comments section of the nearest sports blog.
The closing lines of novels are grammatically different than their opening lines. Here's how.
The nicknames are supposed to be a tool for helping catch crooks, but it seems as if they’re really cooked up to keep special agents amused.
Andrea Cammelleri was ticketed for a parking violation and used the rules of proper punctuation to fight it.
Elliott Morgan debunks a few myths about the English language.