It may have the olde-worlde ring of a quaint but questionable proverb, and has indeed been much maligned in recent years, but there’s more truth to this well-known rule than initially meets the eye (or E). Here, we take a…
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‘I before E except after C’ – techniques for remembering tricky spellings
Tagged with: mnemonic, mnemonics, spelling rule, spelling rules, spelling tips, tips
Posted in Spelling, Vocabulary
Posted in Spelling, Vocabulary
Full stop? Or not?
Is Mr. and Mrs. acceptable or not? No… this is not a posting on the merits of marriage! It’s about the full stop at the end of ‘Mr.’ or ‘Mrs.’. Do we need it? There are other examples too, of…
Posted in Uncategorized
Defining things or adding information? – Correcting relative clauses
Everybody loves a quiz, don’t they? Well, if you do, read on. Relative clauses (sentence components starting with ‘who’, ‘which’, ‘that’, ‘whom’ or ‘whose’) are quite possibly one of the most confusing areas of English grammar. Just when you think…
Tagged with: quiz, relative clause, relative clauses, that, which, who, whom
Posted in Grammar, Proofreading/copy-editing
Posted in Grammar, Proofreading/copy-editing
Apostrophe catastrophes
Considering it is no more than a squiggle – a comma suspended in mid-air – it’s amazing how much trouble the humble apostrophe can cause. Most commonly used with an ‘s’, it can wreak grammatical havoc in a number of…
Tagged with: apostrophe, apostrophes, grocer's apostrophe, inverted comma, possessive, possessive s
Posted in Punctuation
Posted in Punctuation
Who is Hugh Jackilometresan? – The Dangers of Find and Replace
Players of Trivial Pursuit have been amused and baffled in recent years by the inclusion of a question about that well-known Australian actor Hugh Jackilometresan. Find and replace the space In a previous blog post, we sang the praises of…
Tagged with: find and replace, funny spelling mistakes, global find and replace, replace all
Posted in Proofreading/copy-editing, Spelling, Style
Posted in Proofreading/copy-editing, Spelling, Style