The sign in the above photo contains an error that I’m seeing, well, every day lately: everyday used as a noun. The store is “now open everyday.” But everyday is an adjective, as in everyday life, everyday clothes, everyday mistakes. Go forth with this wisdom, people, and correct the errors of our sorry textual ways.
Grammar Girl is a great resource for anyone who wants to improve their writing. She deftly answers pressing punctuation, grammar, and usage questions after doing plenty of supporting research. No persnickety pedant, she keeps her advice “quick and dirty,” giving her audience the tools they need to improve their writing. One of my pet peeves… Continue Reading
There are two editing books that deserve space (not that they require much of it, being the pithy publications that they are) on every editor’s shelf: Strunk and White’s Elements of Style and Carol Fisher Saller’s Subversive Copy Editor. Upon seeing The Subversive Copy Editor lying on our bed recently, my husband assumed that the… Continue Reading