Save the Semicolon

  I recently read an online argument about one of the most commonly used, and commonly fought, expressions around: It’s the answer to “how are you?” “I’m doing good” vs. “I’m doing well.” [NOTE: I'd also like to defend "I'm good," but others have done it well, so I've pasted a link below.] But first, [...]

Today I want to mention two mistakes that people make all the time. In fact, the mistakes are so common that I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re no longer considered mistakes in a generation or two. But for now, they’re wrong and should be avoided in writing. There’s no such thing as a honing pigeon [...]

The words “which” and “that” have a long and tangled history together. I’d guess that most native English-speakers don’t recognize a difference between the words in most sentences. For example: The spaceship that looked like a tulip crashed into my swimming pool. The spaceship which looked like a tulip crashed into my swimming pool. Most [...]