A Walk in the WoRds

The Wall Street Journal recently published an article by Barry Newman titled  Theres a Question Mark Hanging Over the Apostrophes Future . ...

From James Harbeck's book Songs of Love & Grammar : Dim innuendos A sweet musician in a bar said, "Boy, I think you...

  As cute as the idea behind this shirt is, I paused before I read the second line because I am not accustomed seeing the singular form of...

I'm not really in the mood for a Samuel Smith's, so... make it a Wig Top IA. As explained at Wikipedia - India Pale ...

While I don’t agree with the sentiment in the chorus, I love that there is a song named for the Oxford comma. I must admit, the melody is pr...

Love these Useless Mutants .

One of the currently-popular memes adored by language fans involves a spin on "a man walked into a bar" jokes. Of course, I could ...

The comma is not truly the only punctuation tool you will ever need, but it sure does do a lot. The Purdue Online Writing Guide lists the f...

Each of the following illustrations has been making the rounds lately. For your viewing pleasure, here they are in one place. As best I can ...

Last year I shared some 6-Word Stories written by 9th graders with reading disabilities. I was recently sent another collection of these s...

Spotted this wonderfully humorous take on an apostrophe error at a blog called Catalog Living . It is a creative and amusing blog that gives...

In case anyone missed the sarcasm, it should be understood that the "one dollar" is actually a fine for the use of an apostrophe w...

Someone took the time to have this sign made for the owner of this pub; too bad they didn't take the time to add the required posessive ...

The sign for the women's restroom at one of our local taverns is a plaque that reads "women", unfortunately, a holiday wreath ...

The grocers' apostrophe, also known as the greengrocers' apostrophe, is defined by WordSpy as "An apostrophe erroneously insert...