One of the things I like about my job is that it draws on the entire person: not just your knowledge of grammar and punctuation and usage and foreign….

The dictionary is a wonderful thing, but you can't let it push you around..

The comma, if it's left out, sometimes can be a problem. There's a slogan on a T-shirt going around that "Let's Eat, Grandma," and "Let's Eat Grandma….

Commas, like nuns, often travel in pairs..

Punctuation is a deeply conservative club. It hardly ever admits a new member..

Back in the twentieth century, we thought that robots would have taken over by this time, and, in a way, they have. But robots as a race have proved ….

Nobody knows everything-one of the pleasures of language is that there is always something new to learn-and everybody makes mistakes..

Everybody is a writer. Everybody uses e-mail and has Facebook pages and tweets..

Why, if there is alphabet soup, do we not have punctuation cereal?.

Something there is in cyberspace that doesn't love an apostrophe..

The English language is full of words that are just waiting to be misspelled, and the world is full of sticklers, ready to pounce..

Many survivors refuse to talk about what they went through but I've never been ashamed to have been in one of those places. The shame is not mine; th….

On the printed page, it's best to have everything - you know, to still mind your P's and Q's, dot your I's and cross your T's, yes..

There is a phase in the life of every copy editor when she is obsessed with hyphens..