January 2016

If you’re a grammar pedant like me, signs like this – or ones advertising CD’s For Sale – will most likely make your toes curl and set your teeth on edge. Yet the majority of people have become so used to…

Most people are familiar with acronyms, homonyms, pseudonyms and synonyms, but there are several other words with the suffix –onym that I’ve only recently discovered. As a linguist and bit of a word nerd, my natural instinct is to investigate…

Let me start by saying that I’m rather fond of semicolons. But I’m not so enamoured when they’re used incorrectly or ineffectively… Out of all the punctuation marks in English, the one that seems to catch most people out is the…

Most people are familiar with acronyms, homonyms, pseudonyms and synonyms, but there are several other words with the suffix –onym that I’ve only recently discovered. As a linguist and bit of a word nerd, my natural instinct is to investigate…

Whilst proofreading several websites and documents recently, one of the common mistakes I came across involved conjunctions. Seeing as I haven’t written a grammar-related blog post for a while, I thought it would make a good topic for this week’s…

Now that December has arrived, it’s time to get your skates on and start thinking seriously about Christmas presents for family and friends. Whether you’re after stocking fillers for teenage students, a Secret Santa present for an office colleague or…