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Copy editors may look for a lot of little things, but the little things add up
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There's a distinction between the plural "people" and the singular "people," and it applies to their possessive forms.
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A review of "Literacy in the Mountains: Community, Newspapers, and Writing in Appalachia" by Samantha NeCamp
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Review of E.J. White’s "You Talkin’ to Me? The Unruly History of New York English"
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An essay by Samuel Johnson published in 1750 foreshadows how people will argue online
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Maybe you're old enough to learn differences in punctuation.
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A review of Ward Farnsworth's "Farnsworth's Classical English Style"
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A review of Edwin L. Battistella's "Dangerous Crooked Scoundrels: Insulting the President, from Washington to Trump"
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On National Grammar Day, language at work
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Whether to capitalize "civil rights movement" is not a simple issue
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Proper editing demands a lot more than seeing the difference between 'it's' and 'its'
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Pro-Oxford comma vs. anti-Oxford comma and time for a truce
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Dennis Baron gives us historical context on how we use personal pronouns in "What's Your Pronoun?"
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People who think that "that" cannot be used for human beings are, at best, uninformed
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A book by David Shariatmadari corrects misunderstandings of how we speak and write
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Online complaints about language usage follow a predictable pattern.
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You Don't Say has been chugging along on grammar and usage for fourteen years
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The apostrophe is our most treacherous punctuation mark
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Every time the Associated Press Stylebook announces a change it provokes misguided outrage.
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Now that nobody cares about 'hopefully' any longer, language snobs will look for another reason to sneer
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Because we're human, we're prone to error; because we're human, we don't like to admit it.
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Whether you use "controller" or "comptroller," how you say it may get someone to troll you.
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Allan Metcalf explains how the name of Gunpowder Plot figure Guy Fawkes became first a common noun, then a pronoun.
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