by admin | Jul 14, 2013 | History, Language, Words
This post is an outcome of asking so many whys. I never fancied that I’ll start writing on the evolution of English, let alone the history of England. However, the differences between the American and British English piqued my interest and I started doing a little...
by admin | Jul 5, 2013 | Copyediting, Grammar, Words
One of the ways to form an adjective is to add the suffix ~ic or ~ical. There is no clear rule about when to use which. As a rule of thumb, many of the older nouns have the ~ical adjective, while most of the newer ones have ~ic suffix. The suffix ~ic or ~ical means...
by admin | Jul 1, 2013 | Copyediting, Words
Ensuring consistency in spelling is one of the housekeeping kind of editing tasks for a copy editor. Even though Microsoft Word provides a large array of English options, the global publishing world is divided between – or should I say, united by – two variations of...
by admin | Jun 4, 2013 | Words
John McIntyre, the night content production manager at Baltimore Sun, presents In a Word, a word of the week column in his blog You Don’t Say, Every week McIntyre chooses from a range of endangered words and discusses it, so as to breathe new life into these...
