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A reader wants to know about the usage of “peeps.”
Gentlemen, Choose Your Weapons
Writing tools can affect your style. In the days of quill and dip pens, the length of sentences (or at least, phrases) was apparently determined by the amount of ink held by the pen, and prose rhythm was dictated by this simple physical constraint.
Word of the Day: Browbeat
Browbeat means to intimidate or subjugate by the use of verbal harassment or force. A synonym to browbeat is to bully.
Subordinate Clauses and Commas
Writers like to sprinkle their work with subordinate clauses because they add variety to sentence structure.
Sobeit and So Be It
Is there such a word as “sobeit”?
So Sorry to Hear That You Were Impacted!
Reader Ron Harper, Jr. wants to know if people can be impacted.
“Verbing” Nouns
I was disappointed yesterday when, while cruising Facebook, I noticed a national pharmacy company’s request for me to “fan” them.
Imply and Infer
If you have trouble choosing between imply and infer, you’re not alone. Many writers switch them even though they have distinct meanings.