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I’ve written a lot about flat adverbs in the past. But the subject still generates a lot of reader questions. So it's always worth revisiting. Here's an e-mail I got a while back on the subject, followed by my reply.
Hi June,
Just read your column in the Burbank Leader and I have a question. I've been telling our chauffeurs to always "Drive sa...
It's tempting to show off your knowledge of Latin by insisting of saying "octopi" and "cacti." But the Latin words that have been adopted by English may or may not use English rules for forming plurals.
I have a friend who uses the word “irregardless.” I hold my tongue. Sometimes I think it would be in her best interest to know she’s using a word so universally despised. But, as I’ve learned the hard way, people don’t appreciate having their language nitpicked — even if the criticism is dressed up as constructive.
“Irregardless” is one of those words that strikes u...
Passive voice is widely misunderstood and often misused. Here's how and when active voice is your friend.
In the editing styles that put movie and book titles in quotation marks, how do you make those titles into plurals and possessives, like The future will not bring us more "Gone With the Winds" and The legacy is "Casablanca's"? No one's saying, exactly. But there's a precedent for putting the possessive or plural S inside the quotation marks.