Grammar
The most surprising thing about tweets, instagrams, and snapchats
This is the type of preposition argument up with which I will not put
Miss Peller’s dictionary takes a new look at everyday words
The use of buzzwords is rising exponentially
The admirable aims of a Stonehaven son of the manse
OH MY WORD: It’s the thrupnies and tanners at a scrambly I miss most
There’s surely no need to call Charlize Theron the name of a fish
Words we grew up with that were almost (but not quite) swear-words
OH MY WORD: Scots will be speaking in code for the next seven months
OH MY WORD: Written numbers, like American elections, don’t have rules
Have you ever wondered what the Alt Gr key on a keyboard is for?
OH MY WORD: Politicians have found a new way to lie to us
Who will defiantly urge us to fight Covid on the beaches?
To boldly go where many infinitive splitters have gone before
Isn’t it ooh, isn’t it ahh, isn’t it absolutely the Turner Prize
As Sir Harold would say: Do I Make Myself Clear? Why Writing Well Matters
It’s a long, and difficult to pronounce, way to Alyth
OH MY WORD: I never had any intention of killing my granny
OH MY WORD: Are children being taught English at school?
It helps if you can spell your own name
OH MY WORD: You and I might be friends . . . depending on your view of the Oxford comma
Oh my word: A lockdown apology that should have paid attention to a lesson from 1980
OH MY WORD: A sign of our times