The Comma Queen’s confessions are a delight – both for those in the know and for those who haven’t yet experienced the split infinitives, spelling curiosities and Oxford commas that populate the copy-editor’s working life.
And so, we come to the end of another year – is it a cliché to say that it flew past? I do feel as if I blinked in March and then ended up here in December.
We’ve buried 13 Halloween howlers in the list of horror movies below. Can you spot them all?
Editorial style can be a minefield. Recently the Associated Press (AP) Style Book changed its guidance on hyphenation, sparking “linguistic pandemonium”.
When I was younger, I really thought I was Matilda Wormwood: curling up with a book on a bed or a sofa was my absolute favourite pastime (and, to be honest, it still is). Roald Dahl was a huge source of inspiration to me – and millions of others.
It’s August, and it’s the perfect time to plonk yourself in a deckchair in the dappled shade of a tree and catch up with your stash of crime story reading or viewing.
When quizzed on the difference between American and English humour, Stephen Fry said: “Comedy is the microcosm that allows us to examine the entire difference between our two cultures.”
The sun’s (mostly) out, the soil is nice and warm, the days are lengthening and the weeds are taking hold. This has to be my favourite time of year…
Did you know that this week is National Stationery Week? It was news to us, too! But it did get us thinking about our favourite or indispensable items of stationery.
Guardians of Grammar. Protectors of Punctuation. Superheroes of Syntax.
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