19th May 2016 It’s been a punny old day today: or how the pun is no laughing matter in your business English “It’s unpleasantly like being drunk.” “What’s so unpleasant about being drunk?” “You ask a glass of water.” ― Douglas Adams, The… Continue reading
Posts tagged "proofreading"
Eggcorns and proofreading
The Proofreader’s role Proofreading involves so much more than being on the lookout for obvious spelling mistakes and those preposition omissions that are so, so easy to make. The brain is too clever by half at seeing what it knows… Continue reading
It’s punctuation Jim – but not as we know it.
This post is by way of a share of a rather interesting article from the Huffington post about 5 punctuation marks that have changed beyond all recognition: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/keith-houston-/post_8467_b_5989482.html Did you know that: “The comma is one of the oldest marks of… Continue reading