Pam Nelson

Posted January 13th, 2008 by Pam Nelson & filed under Usage.

At last, I have a new quiz. This one is hodgepodge (or, as a smart but crotchety copy editor once… Read more »

Posted January 7th, 2008 by Pam Nelson & filed under Uncategorized.

The American Dialect Society chose subprime as its word of the year. Subprime refers to those risky loans to people… Read more »

Posted January 2nd, 2008 by Pam Nelson & filed under Usage.

Just in case anyone has any doubts, this head from Monday (Dec. 31) uses the wrong verb. To lay low… Read more »

Posted January 1st, 2008 by Pam Nelson & filed under Uncategorized.

Some people at Lake Superior State University have compiled their 33rd annual List of Words Banished from the Queen’s English… Read more »

Posted December 30th, 2007 by Pam Nelson & filed under Uncategorized.

A reader calls our attention to this sentence from Saturday’s (Dec. 29, 2007) page 2A: There may be biological reasons… Read more »

Posted December 23rd, 2007 by Pam Nelson & filed under Grammar, Usage.

This is the time for word of the year lists. The New York Times Week in Review has an article… Read more »

Posted December 16th, 2007 by Pam Nelson & filed under Grammar, Grammar Quiz, Usage.

A reader takes us to task for this sentence in a sports story: With 5:47 left at Louis Brown Athletic… Read more »

Posted December 14th, 2007 by Pam Nelson & filed under Copy Editing, Journalism, Newspapers.

I have now in my possession the Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition, on CD-ROM, Version 3.1. When it landed in… Read more »

Posted December 12th, 2007 by Pam Nelson & filed under Usage.

Do you know what’s wrong in this sentence? Growing up in Minnesota, one of my favorite things was going to… Read more »

Posted December 4th, 2007 by Pam Nelson & filed under Usage.

Having edited several gift guides in the past week or so (and facing another when I go in this morning… Read more »

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