Oliver Kamm’s Accidence Will Happen: The Non-Pedantic Guide to English explores language change, the ways in which language is used today, and how experts discuss conventions and usage. According to Kamm, experts can be divided into two camps: Linguists (who are...
Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen explores the ways in which grammar, punctuation, and language itself are evolving because of changes in publishing practices and standards, and our use of communication technologies and new media. Opening the book, I...
Do you twitch when you see a tweet with a typo? Do you get a headache when a headline has a redundancy? What about the grocer’s apostrophe? Is it a familiar pain like a relative on Facebook you can't unfriend? We all make writing mistakes. At the same time, we all...
