Buyer Beware: The old version of Maeve’s writing guide is still available on Amazon in a white cover with a yellow edge. Don’t buy that one. Buy the new one with the computer on the front.
Category: Popular Culture
A New Shibboleth
A reader writing a letter to the editor in my daily paper described an incident in which he went shopping, filled his basket with items totaling about $300 and then walked out of the store without completing his purchases. What prompted him to do that? When he entered the check-out line and said “Merry Christmas,” the…
Jeopardy and “Silent H”
Every so often the Jeopardy writers get it wrong. They certainly did on December 12, 2012. One of the categories had to do with “silent H.” The first response that I noticed made perfect sense: honesty. The word honesty is spelled with an h but pronounced without one. Ergo, the h in honesty is a “silent…
10 Things I Didn’t Know About Tarzan
When I heard that a new Tarzan movie was about to be released, I started thinking about the Tarzan of my childhood: Johnny Weissmuller. I remember Weissmuller as a great swimmer—he usually had at least one scene in which he killed some creature in the water—and as a great screamer. His signature call was blood-curdling…