By Curtis Honeycutt If a potato can become vodka, you can become a bonafide word nerd — anything is possible. The tools and tips
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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
May the grammar be with you
By Curtis Honeycutt I have to admit — I don’t know much about Star Wars. Somehow, I missed the window to watch them during
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
Playing a game of question tag
By Curtis Honeycutt I don’t know much about street art. I’m no graffitist (a person who does graffiti), but I do know that to “tag”
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
Saving seats at the movie theater
By Curtis Honeycutt Did you know that The Beatles’ album “Let It Be” is technically a soundtrack? It accompanies the 1970 documentary of the same
Come sale away (just don’t sail with me)
By Curtis Honeycutt I’ve never been fond of boats or horses. The reason I’m not a boat fan is because I’m a 38-year-old man who
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
The tipsy truth behind alcohol idioms
By Curtis Honeycutt I haven’t been hitting the sauce much lately, nor have I been any number of sheets to the wind. Call me old-fashioned,