Making words work better
Last week Jacob Rees-Mogg Esq., M.P. issued a style guide to his staff, proscribing certain words and phrases while enjoining a mixed bag of…
Continue reading → Jacob Rees-Mogg’s ‘style guide’. Some dispassionate thoughts.
3-minute read In the wake of Secretary Pompeo’s edicts about punctuation, which hit the U.S. headlines in late September this year, I blogged about the…
5-minute read (Less for you speed-readers out there: well done, you!) James Thurber was once asked why there was a comma in the sentence "After…
Continue reading → Pompeo and commas and CMOS. How to use commas (1).
