Being in the presence of a diva can be intimidating. Fortunately, the author of today's guest post, Arlene Miller, is anything but. Even as I wrote that last sentence I worried there’s something wrong with it. Will I hear from her about how it’s constructed? Is there a prohibition against ending a sentence with "but?"... Continue Reading →
Grammar can save the world
"Some English that might strive thine ear to please" — John Keats, Sonnet to Spenser I recently spent a week being paid to care very much that tenses agreed and singular nouns did not precede plural verbs. That is, I was copy editing. And here I arrive at the limit of my ability to describe... Continue Reading →
IT’S-IT: a rant about ice cream and grammar
If you're not from the West coast you may not know that IT'S-IT is the name of a delectable ice cream treat created in 1928 when, according to the company's web site, "George Whitney began what is now a San Francisco tradition. He placed a scoop of vanilla ice cream between two large old-fashioned oatmeal... Continue Reading →