Uzbekistan’s President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has signed a law revising the country’s Latin-based Uzbek alphabet, which will ...
Understanding output variation as a problem of reproducibility, evaluation, and operationPrevious pointsUp until the last ...
The 20th installment of the prefecture-by-prefecture series is Aomori. Following the previous installment on Fukushima, we ...
Lederer on Language” column runs every other Saturday in The San Diego Union-Tribune. Dr. Lederer is the author of 50 books about language, history, and humor, including his best-selling Anguished ...
Retirees living off portfolio income want predictable cash flow, not a guessing game. The five names below all serve that mandate: four pay monthly, one pays quarterly, and each covers its ...
Do you know the first sentence of “Pride and Prejudice”? You probably think you do, but I bet you don’t. The answer is “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a ...
An indifferent grade-school student, a bored high-school one, my least favorite subject was English grammar, with punctuation a close second. Best I was able in those papers I wrote for school I ...
Help students strengthen grammar, proofreading, and sentence-writing skills with a simple Read, Find, Fix, Rewrite routine. Each sentence contains one intentional error, allowing learners to focus on ...
Pity the period. And the comma and the semicolon too. Punctuation is the sturdy armature of written language, yet it does its job quietly, in the background. We tend to spend far more time analyzing ...
“In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God.” Yet in the beginning there was no punctuation. In early Latin manuscripts, the Bible was written in scriptura continua ...
The success of Mark Kurlansky’s 2002 microhistory, “Salt,” has given rise to a great profusion of narrative-nonfiction works that have as their starting point an ordinary thing. An author then ranges ...
I was a novice editor, he was an experienced writer, and the first article he turned in revealed a virtuosic command of comma placement. He opened with long, slow clauses; picked up speed with shorter ...