By Curtis Honeycutt November begins the holiday season, but we don’t need to wait until the end of the month to celebrate. Although Thanksgiving is
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Spooky word origins that go ‘bump’ in the night
By Curtis Honeycutt It’s scary how early I get excited about PSL season. Of course, I’m talking about punctuation, syntax and language! Add an extra
Better grammar, better love life
By Curtis Honeycutt It’s true — people with better spelling and grammar get more dates. I regularly receive emails from readers asking me about the
Climbing the corporate latter
By Curtis Honeycutt Do you want to work your way from the mailroom to the corner office? You’ve got gumption, kid, so leave it to
Investigating fictional faceoffs
By Curtis Honeycutt Let’s talk rivalries. Everyone has an opinion on Coke versus Pepsi. How about werewolves against vampires? Do bears beat Battlestar Galactica? Hufflepuff
Shortcut words: lazy or efficient?
By Curtis Honeycutt Americans like being the best at things. We’re the best at baseball, jazz, freedom, national parks – pretty much anything Ken Burns
Spilling the tea on sentence fragments
By Curtis Honeycutt Blame it all on my British roots, but I’ve never preferred coffee. I like hanging out in coffee shops. I don’t mind
A little bit lower now — decapitalization as a writing style
By Curtis Honeycutt As soon as I wrote a column on Caps Lock, the lowercase, a.k.a. “minuscule” letters, demanded an essay of their own. The
A tip of the cap to Caps Lock
By Curtis Honeycutt Why are you yelling? Have you seen someone post a social media update in all caps? It’s not a good look. In
The floral moral of the story
By Curtis Honeycutt As spring turns to summer, I love taking leisurely laps around my house to see what’s in bloom. Nearly every day, I