Archives

October 2021

• 13: The Fabergé Flute—”A Fabulous Book!”

April 2021

• 23: The Armenian Connection in The Fabergé Flute (0)

October 2019

• 11: Misquoting Shakespeare in the Name of Corruption

August 2019

• 05: The Pronoun Book Released

May 2019

• 08: Maeve’s Winning Fiction Published in Conclave (0)

February 2019

• 03: Bated Breath

May 2018

• 16: Learn to spell the word for that thing that accompanies thunder
• 09: Feathers are “Ruffled,” Not “Rankled”
• 01: Sorry, Jeopardy, “daub” does not rhyme with “Bob” (0)

March 2018

• 29: Spelling and State of the Uniom (0)

January 2018

• 23: Love Your Language
• 19: Pronoun Mayhem in High Places (0)

December 2017

• 29: Flawed Rules Are Better Than None
• 21: Jeopardy Writers Get It Wrong Again

November 2017

• 23: Agreeing with Trump on “mike”
• 11: The Disappearing Irregular Past Participle

October 2017

• 11: The Pronunciation of “gerrymandering”

August 2017

• 09: New Problem with “lay” and “lie”
• 02: Are Your Homonyms Showing?

July 2017

• 10: Okja—Not for Children

May 2017

• 12: Optics and Perception
• 08: Stint and Stent

April 2017

• 28: Word Rage: Anger Management for US English Speakers
• 24: Maeve’s Writing Guide Reformatted
• 21: Note to Jeopardy: stanch and staunch are different words

February 2017

• 27: The Difference Between “Advise” and “Advice”
• 19: February
• 17: Beware of “Whom” with Parenthetical Expressions
• 09: New Word: DeVossed
• 06: 10 Requests to the Press

January 2017

• 22: NOT DeVos
• 12: What Makes A Word “Fancy”?
• 06: Anger in the Air

December 2016

• 22: A New Shibboleth
• 14: Gaslighting
• 13: Jeopardy and “Silent H”

November 2016

• 15: Knowing a Preposition from a Particle

October 2016

• 25: Embers and Pleonasms
• 17: Epithet and Epitaph
• 11: “Mic” Rhymes with “Bic”

September 2016

• 30: Questionable Past Tense of “Tread” (1)

June 2016

• 30: Raring To Go
• 24: 10 Things I Didn’t Know About Tarzan
• 09: Jeopardy Does It Again

April 2016

• 27: Grammar Alert: “Me” and “I” (0)

March 2016

• 17: Common Sense or Common Knowledge?

February 2016

• 17: Jeopardy Writers Misrepresent Poe
• 03: Toilet Paper Ads, Then and Now

January 2016

• 28: Hot Air and the Media (1)
• 12: Marigold, Lady Edith, and the Word “Ruse”

December 2015

• 19: The Geography Teacher Made a Poor Choice

November 2015

• 27: The Salem Witches and American Education
• 15: A More Acceptable Name for the Murderous Horde
• 08: A Whole Year To Go!

August 2014

• 20: Three Cheers for Lily Garcia

July 2014

• 30: Scruffy-looking Celebrities
• 10: Earth to Echo to Ennui

February 2013

• 17: 100 Writing Mistakes to Avoid–REVISED with Index

August 2012

• 08: Film Guide to Six Joan of Arc Movies (0)

April 2012

• 28: So You Want to Write!