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Share and Snare a 'Like' Feb. 07, 2024
Today, two meaty questions involving comparison ... Jeanette Lendl of Delmont, Pennsylvania, isn't s... Read More
A 'Soup'er Bowl Packed With Pigskin Palaver Jan. 31, 2024
The lingo of American football is a soup bowl bubbling with terms from almost every realm of life, f... Read More
Why the Letter 'B' Is Deeply in 'Debt' Jan. 24, 2024
Have you ever wondered why we don't pronounce the "b" in debt, the "c" in indict, the "p" in receipt... Read More
'Recouping' Gives Reader Paws Jan. 17, 2024
Today, some questions from readers ... Curt Guenther of Memphis asked me to vet this sentence descri... Read More
Putting Modifiers in Their Place Feb. 22, 2023
There's a demon stalking our fair nation. George Santos? Well, yeah, him too. But the real menace to... Read More
Can You Spot the Dirty Dozen? Jul. 13, 2022
Members of the ever-vigilant Word Guy Blooper Patrol have nabbed a dozen verbal culprits in newspape... Read More
And Now for a Lesson in 'Onto'logy Feb. 24, 2021
I, the all-powerful, all-knowing Word Guy, have a confession: I'm sometimes not sure whether to use ... Read More
Slash Your Way Through These Prose Thickets Apr. 22, 2020
Reading awkward, verbose prose can feel like trying to navigate a dense thicket of branches and bush... Read More
Shoo, 'Of,' Don't Bother Me! Nov. 06, 2019
The seemingly harmless preposition "of" is the fly in the ointment of good writing. This pesky pest ... Read More
