Language Corner

The AP and the latest style

April 29, 2021 By Merrill Perlman

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The phrase you’re three times more likely to write wrong

June 12, 2017 By Merrill Perlman

We can all do our part to stop PPWE

June 5, 2017 By Merrill Perlman

Test your mastery of ‘therefore’ and ‘as such’

May 30, 2017 By Merrill Perlman

An important caveat about dictionary definitions

May 22, 2017 By Merrill Perlman

One word you thought the TSA would never use

May 16, 2017 By Merrill Perlman

Everything you ever wanted to know about ‘swashbuckling’

May 9, 2017 By Merrill Perlman

Mitigate and militate

May 1, 2017 By Merrill Perlman

Is forwards grammatical, or is it backward?

April 24, 2017 By Merrill Perlman

A whole lot of reformation

April 17, 2017 By Merrill Perlman

Bill O’Reilly and the snowflakes

April 10, 2017 By Merrill Perlman

From cyberattacks to fake news: notable recent changes in AP style

April 3, 2017 By Merrill Perlman

Stylebooks finally embrace the single ‘they’

March 27, 2017 By Merrill Perlman

Don’t work overtime: The final word on the Oxford comma

March 21, 2017 By Merrill Perlman

How to remember who vs. whom

March 14, 2017 By Merrill Perlman

How not to ‘adjectify’

March 7, 2017 By Merrill Perlman

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