Up Your Alley … or In Your Wheelhouse?
Something may be up your alley or up your street, but can it be “in …
Something may be up your alley or up your street, but can it be “in …
“Make every word tell”: this sound advice from The Elements of Style speaks not …
Numbers add both comforting precision and eerie uncertainty to life. For precision’s sake, we like …
We rarely tolerate nonsense, but we have a soft spot for “nonsense words”. They seem …
English has many words with multiple meanings. Can we say there’s an art to using …
Can you write fewer words and keep the meaning you intended? Of course! If you …
You may consider the word “yesteryear” to be a clumsy fusion of “yesterday” and “year”. …
Some seldom-used words have a particular charm: their meaning is clear simply from their spelling …
Copying and pasting text or images is an established and tidy practice: we copy the …
Good composition includes slashing all needless words from your business writing. But to do that, you …