No Clothing in Polling Place! (Signs #21)
Just a quick laugh on the eve of Election Day. A friend shared this sign on Facebook, noting that whoever wrote it could use my services. I don't know that the sign was really posted [...]
A Dangling Participle Walks Into a Bar…
Stop me if you've heard this one: A dangling participle walks into a bar. Enjoying a cocktail and...
An Oxford Comma Walks Into a Bar…
...where it eats, shoots, and leaves? No, wrong joke.
Capital Abuse! (Civic Hero Edition)
We learned the rules for capitalization in elementary school. But then apparently some people learned some Rules That Are Not Rules.
Quotation Marks with Other Punctuation (stay-at-home edition)
A reader asked me to address a punctuation problem she sees: "punctuation being used incorrectly when quotation marks are involved." I'll tell you why we have this problem: There are different rules for two sets of punctuation.