Should I Use The British Or American Spelling...
If I am writing an article about paper money, to a world-wide readership, including...
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"That's Not The Way We Talk"
"That's not the way we talk" is the headline above an article printed on today's...
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In-Your-Face Anti-Americanism In The UK
An interesting article about Rightpondia in today's Guardian: [link] Comment An...
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Usage Of Article For "Hospital"
This was from a London website: CHAOS AT IKEA OPENING Five people are in hospital...
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Formerly Known As Jewfish
Interesting column. I'm pasting the entire article here because the Orlando Sentinel...
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Can You Be Good Without God?
An American professor called Jerry A. Coyne ponders in all seriousness whether one...
Bush Mispronounces Nevada In First Presidential...
Bush mispronounces Nevada in first presidential visit The Associated Press The San...
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Google Friendship Redux
Wikipedia is now first when I Google 'jew' and Jewwatch second. Doing the search...
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Michael Quinion On Punctuation And Quotation...
While consulting Michael Quinion's World Wide Words Web site, I found that among...
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Is The Use Of "Do Do" A No No In An American...
I was recently chastised for composing a post to an American tax-related USENET newsgroup...
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Difference Between Society And Association
Hello, I am Italian and I don't understand the difference between Society and Association...
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Who/Whom Misuse
From an article on Findlaw.com about an article in The Baltimore Sun : "Stick to...
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The Excellence Of American Universities
From a recent article in the NY Times: But there is also a recognition that Heidelberg...
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The Nonsense League Table
Who speaks the most gibberish, the worst jargon, the most twisted English and the...
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Shyamalan¹s Hollywood Horror Story
NYT June 2, 2008 Shyamalan¹s Hollywood Horror Story, With Twist By ALLISON HOPE WEINER...
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Back To The Consequences Of PI Speech...
Just the most recent piece of evidence that saying things that offend the PC police...
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Johnny Appleseed
I'm starting work on a story about Johnny Appleseed. Johnny came to notice after...
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Apocalypse
My comments are promoted by the heading "Apocalypse Then" in the BBC Homepage of...
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Obama's Fog Index
There's been some discussion on whether Obama writes his own speeches or has a speechwriter...
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Bushevik
(Sorry if dupe... original didn't seem to make it through, maybe it did) I ran across...
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