A squeamish Facebook reader left a note on my wall last night about the very common use of the word “nauseous” to mean “feeling sick”...

This is a bonus extended edition of a column I wrote for the most recent newsletter of the American Copy Editors Society. It seems an...

I put this two-page list of tips together for a small newspaper chain recently. It’s available as a PDF on my Web site,...

The Kenny Loggins song “I’m Alright” from “Caddyshack” is stuck in my head as I write this (it’s catchier than the Who’s “The Kids are...

After seeing “affect” used improperly several times in succession years ago, I photocopied the “AP Stylebook” entry, cut it out, copied...

This is the bonus extended edition of a column I wrote for the most recent newsletter of the American Copy Editors Society. To learn...

Writers often will say they are word people and not math people. And this defeatist pronouncement too often is reflected in their use of...

I grabbed Grammar Girl’s new iPhone app hot off the presses Wednesday afternoon, eager to see the next step in multimedia grammar...

M. Lynne Murphy, an American-educated linguist living in England, writes the blog “Separated by a Common Language.” She annually seeks...

After looking through hundreds of comments on Twitter about the “bold” and rather odd reorganization at the Dallas Morning News, one...