Your or you’re – a spark of misspelling that can conflagrate the most tame grammar argument. It has gotten worse in recent years with the rise of text speak or SMS language. If you’ve ever seen ‘ur’ or ‘u r’ then you’ve seen the simple abbreviation of the above...
Tools change, but one thing remains constant… When I started as a technical writer, I knew what I signed on for. When I started technical writing, I had no idea that’s what it was called. I was just creating guides to help a user play games. It was 1982 and I...
Have you ever had trouble recalling the beginning or end of a particular idiom and mixed it up with a completely unrelated saying? Has the cow come home to roost? I want to teach you how to mix these up on purpose and have some fun with the language you may use...
It’s a real shame so many people confuse “it’s” and “its”. One is a possessive determiner and the other is a simple contraction. But according to Grammarly’s Top 30 Commonly Confused Words in English these aren’t as simple as they may seem. I’ve already written about...
If you’re like me, your grammar school days are long behind you. I definitely remember filling out The Elements of Style Workbook (Strunk and White), but I don’t remember what I wrote. And much like any other adult who similarly disregarded the rules of grammar, I am...