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not "alright"
an issue came to me in a writer’s workshop last night. there is no such word as “alright,” although many learned people believe the contrary. i think the influence is because of the word “already.”...
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language pet peeves
there are a few phrases that people are constantly saying that are just plain wrong, and apparently the people themselves just refuse to listen when i try to explain the errors. 1. “it was all downhill...
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It’s Time to fix the grammar
I didn’t know, although I’ve seen evidence of it for years, that newspapers and magazines have taken it upon themselves to change the rules of language and grammar. It must have been a long ago...
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Did you know you were lost?
More language pet peeves: finding yourself. One of the highest ranking overused phrases is when someone writes that a person “found himself/herself…” an example would be something like, “John was...
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moron (more on) language
“either side” please, writers and speakers, stop saying “either side” when it’s not what you really mean to say. for example, i’ll read/see/hear something like this: “there was a statue of a lion on...
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