The words and phrases of an economic downturn fill our newspaper and Web site these days. One such phrase prompted… Read more »
Posts By: Pam Nelson
Word watch: stimulus
The economic stimulus bill that Congress and President Obama This article was originally posted by the Raleigh News & Observer,… Read more »
Word advice: Differ from vs. differ with
A colleague asked about the distinction between "differ from" and "differ with." This article was originally posted by the Raleigh… Read more »
In defense of editing
John McIntyre, director of the Baltimore Sun’s copy desk, has a few things to say about Wikipedia in a recent… Read more »
Word advice: Prepositions
A colleague asked about a preposition the other day. (Copy editors are funny that way.) He was puzzling over this… Read more »
We learned it in third grade
Sometimes, when I see apostrophes used to make plurals, I wonder where those writers were in third grade when most… Read more »
The word of the year?
The American Dialect Society chose bailout as the word of the year for 2008. Here is the news release from… Read more »
Whose pronoun is it anyway?
Even the notoriously smarty pants "Countdown With Keith Olbermann" (and I say that with affection and admiration) makes a mistake… Read more »
Bushisms: Presidential language
The Associated Press has a piece analyzing how President George W. Bush’s personality affected his legacy and a companion piece… Read more »
Top words and new words: It's exhaustipating
I know that some readers of this blog are perturbed by new words and changing usage. Sometimes I am too…. Read more »