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Please Stop Sending Me the Oxford Comma Story
Copy editors have lives outside of punctuation—but also, I love commas
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Trump’s Typo Problem: Human Error, or Willful Ignorance?
The number of mistakes signals that important people don’t know what they’re doing—and couldn’t care less
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Can You Trust Your Dictionary?
The Canadian Oxford can be a writer’s best friend—if they understand its limitations
Read More ‘Alt-Right’ and the Danger of Euphemisms
The media should not help white nationalists rebrand bigotry
Read More Understanding Trump’s Grammar
It’s tempting to mock the way Trump speaks—but doing so plays right into his tiny hands
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Grammar’s Star Trek Rule
Resistance is futile—just split your infinitives, already
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Don’t Be a Grammar Troll
The web may be a pedant’s paradise, but there are good reasons to keep your asterisks to yourself
Read More Will Texting Kill the Period?
Another punctuation mark is added to the endangered species list
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Keep Comma and Carry On
Who cares about an Oxford comma? We do
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Apostrophe-gate
Inside Edmonton’s punctuation scandal: why a tiny mark makes people murderous
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