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4485‘How wirelessly to hack’ — split that infinitive The Volokh Conspiracy opinion BTimF-1/6/2017
4484“I believe in periods, in capitals, in the occasional comma, and that’s it.” -CTom Clarke-1/2/2017
4483[graphic]TimF-9/3/2016
4482Good article. I'll have to keep those points he makes in the back of my mindStan-8/8/2016
4481Finger-Pointing, Trouble-Saving, and Pussyfooting In an earlier Lingua Franca TimF18/8/2016
4480The National Weather Service has adopted upper and lower case for its forecasts,Sr K-4/13/2016
4479Good to know, thank you. I was always capitalizing internet because I consideredZen Dollar Round-4/5/2016
4478I was wondering when e-mail became email. 2011.Sr K-4/4/2016
4477AP Style alert: Don’t capitalize internet and web anymore poynter.orgTom Clarke24/4/2016
4476Some "vandal" is going to come along with a piece of chalk and correctStan-1/3/2016
4475"your beautiful" as marketing campaign: languagelog.ldc.upenn.edusoftware salesperson-1/3/2016
4474My favorite is when someone responds to an Internet comment they don't agreeStan-1/1/2016
4473Haha. Usually the mistake you see these days is using "your" when it sZen Dollar Round-1/1/2016
4472His handy daily affirmation will work until the moment he learns what's realStan-1/1/2016
4471That twit deserves it. It's not as if the tattee didn't see what was goSmoothSail-1/1/2016
4470Too bad there isn't a 15 minute editing time for tattoos. "Stay strongStan-1/1/2016
4469I did not know there was a 27th letter of our alphabet - the ampersand. blog.diStan-12/22/2015
446810/23/2015 wired.comSr K-11/9/2015
4467[graphic]Tom Clarke-10/4/2015
4466Really? No one caught this before going live?! With a hat tip to my colleague ChStan-8/31/2015
4465The spell checker strikes again. From an article on how to speak to someone batStan-7/11/2015
4464An Ohio woman got out of a ticket by correctly pointing out a punctuation error Tom Clarke57/4/2015
4463Recent Yahoo article with this heading using the adverbial form of the word &quoStan17/2/2015
4462The Best and Worst Fonts to Use on Your Résumé Using Times New Roman Sr K-4/27/2015
4461Garden Path Sentences, like, "Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a Stan-2/23/2015
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