Writing Right
I'm passionate about punctuation, greedy for good grammar, and silly for syntax. What's a good alliterative adjective to accompany "spelling"? My formal writing developed under the influence of Strunk and White's The Element's of Style, the Scribner Handbook of English, Roget's Thesaurus and probably a Funk & Wagnall's "New World" dictionary. It's been replaced by Webster's New Collegiate, Webster's Instant Word Guide, and a bevy of specialty dictionaries. I've also acquired a copy of Bartlett's "Quotations". All these and more are online, of course. Also online is a generation of semi-literates who received little, if any, rudimentary training in word slinging. Reading their writings makes my hair hurt.










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