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It's time once again for the latest in our series of quick tips on usage and style shared by Mignon Fogarty, better known as Grammar Girl. Here Mignon clarifies how to pluralize some nouns derived from Greek (sometimes by way of Latin).
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The distinction between less and fewer is one of the most popular rules in the peevers' arsenal. Students have it drilled into their heads that fewer is for things you can count while less is for things you can't. But there's a problem: the rule as it's commonly taught is wrong, and it's dulling our sense of what's actually right.
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Garbage is such a trashy word. It suggests rubbish, waste, and, well, garbage. So why not put a positive spin on refuse with the term non-core assets? It applies equally well to financial garbage and garbage garbage, not to mention anything else that's not worth a lick.
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Welcome to the latest in our series of quick tips on usage and style shared by Mignon Fogarty, better known as Grammar Girl. In this tip, Mignon has some advice on confusion over "ban together" versus "band together."
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Word CountWriters Talk About Writing
Your Head Will Spin: "Naught," "Aught," and "Ought"
We sure have to work hard to say what ends meaning "nothing."
"I ought to know better, but I know naught about the difference between aught and nought" is a sentence sure to make more than one head spin.
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Happy National Punctuation Day!
Did you know today is National Punctuation Day? Celebrate with some of our punctuation-related articles from the past...
· Learning to Love the Semicolon
· "Punctuation Hero" or Vandal?
· What's Your Favorite Punctuation Mark?
Here is the latest in our series of quick tips on usage and style shared by Mignon Fogarty, better known as Grammar Girl. This time she answers the question, is it copy editor or copyeditor?
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