By Curtis Honeycutt I have a 5-year-old son. Right now toilet humor is big. Body parts are funny. Things that produce bad smells get big
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I see your point: avoiding overuse of exclamations
Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke. -F. Scott Fitzgerald Ancient Romans used all capital letters,
Fire up the DeLorean in search of that milk-butter
By Curtis Honeycutt I need a milk butler. “Need?” you ask, followed by, “What’s a milk butler?” Feel free to replace those question marks with
How do you plead?
By Curtis Honeycutt I’m sure pleats will eventually come back into style. I still remember the pleated khakis I wore to church in the mid-1990s.
Should you do it anyway or any way?
By Curtis Honeycutt I think we have a strong, American impulse that tells us to do something despite someone else’s warning to not do that
How to get your Valentine’s date just right
By Curtis Honeycutt Chivalry isn’t dead — yet. Follow these tips to make sure your Valentine’s date wants to smooch you into oblivion at the
The Super Bowl of grammar
By Curtis Honeycutt Last week I discussed the topic of subject-verb agreement. Many of you wrote in and asked about sports teams, particularly sports teams
Let’s agree to agree on subject-verb agreements
By Curtis Honeycutt You only have to look as far as your social media feed to realize people disagree over just about everything in our
One for the history books
By Curtis Honeycutt Somewhere in a secret laboratory (probably in Minsk), a team of thermodynamic scientists worked for years to perfect the to-go mug that
A world of pure exaggeration
By Curtis Honeycutt We need to talk about “literally.” I’m afraid we’re not using it “correctly.” Now, before you accuse me of being a Captain