By Curtis Honeycutt If a potato can become vodka, then you can become a bonafide word nerd. The tools and tips I give you are
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Try me a river
By Curtis Honeycutt Of course, they were gonna try and kill me. Do not try and bend the spoon. Thor, you gotta try and bottleneck
The verbal recipe for a successful résumé
By Curtis Honeycutt Your résumé (or curriculum vitae, if you speak Latin) can be like a key that unlocks the door to an interview for
Are apocopes ‘totes adorbs’ or ‘natch’?
By Curtis Honeycutt If you’ve ever spilled your brandy on your tux near the grand piano at the rhino zoo, you know what I’m talking
To avoid repetition, don’t say the same thing twice
By Curtis Honeycutt If you drive an hour from my house, you can get to an Indiana city named Gas City. If you drive into
One very overused word to avoid: what you should use instead
By Curtis Honeycutt Substitute “damn” every time you’re inclined to write “very”; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it
Mixed up the lyrics? There’s a word for that.
By Curtis Honeycutt I’d love to be in a real band someday, if for no other reason but to come up with cool potential band
Say it ain’t ‘so’: is the use of a conjunction OK to begin a sentence?
By Curtis Honeycutt When your significant other starts a conversation with, “So, we need to talk,” you know it’s over. You immediately flip through the
Who are you calling an idiom?
By Curtis Honeycutt Some people take things literally. Kleptomaniacs take things, literally. Literalists aren’t fans of idioms. Idioms are phrases with figurative meanings; they aren’t
How to capitalize on being a word nerd
By Curtis Honeycutt I’m about to hit you with a mnemonic device that will bring the armies of men into peace with the wood elves.