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- The situation when you're so caught up in the effect you're trying to get that you don't notice what you're actually saying
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- Is it compare to or compare with or just call the whole thing off?
- The obfuscation of the "police-involved shooting" construction
- There are distinctions of usage worth keeping, and distinctions that are likely a waste of your time
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- In "The Hidden History of Coined Words" Ralph Keyes explains who makes the words we use and how
- "Graduate" is a shape-shifting verb
- You were taught the "lie/lay" distinction? Good on you. You weren't? Good on you.
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- Editing your own writing is possible, advisable, and limited.
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- It's hard to set standards for use of the hyphen, because practices and preferences vary widely
- In their zeal to be precise, copy editors can adopt false precision.
- A tasty dish of black-eyed peas for good luck in the year to come.
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- Who decided that young people had to be called "youth"?
- People who earn academic doctorates are also called "doctor."
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- It's not enough to know why bad writing is bad; you have to understand why good writing is good.
- Before you write "conclave," make sure you know what it means
- Know when your commas are helping you and when you're wasting punctuation.
- Here are a few little things to keep in mind before you share your text with the world
- "One who" and "one of those who" are different animals
- The prejudice against "hopefully" as a sentence adverb survives, but it is fading
- A review of Rob Reinalda's 'Why Editors Drink'
- You would like editors if you got to know them
- The change in "reticent" to mean "reluctant" is a semantic shift that is not going away.
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