Daily Writing Tips

30+ Old Norse Words You Already Know

Probably you’ve never studied Conversational Viking, let alone claimed to speak it. But the language of the Vikings, Old Norse, […]

Writing essays can be tough … and sometimes you need all the help you can get. The great news is […]

Market and attendant words, deriving from the Latin verb mercari, meaning “trade,” are listed and defined in this post. Market, […]

Hard rules are a good thing for writers sometimes. The sonnet is one of the strictest forms of poetry, but […]

Will robots eventually have writers out of a job? Are we going to see computers writing the next Great American […]

This post lists words derived from words in other languages as a result of folk etymology, a process by which […]

Writing a resume can be really tough. You know you need to convince an employer that you’re the best person […]

A phrasal verb is a verb consisting of two or more words—a verb and (usually) a preposition or a particle—that, […]

First things first: what is the Oxford comma? Also called serial comma, it is a comma placed after the penultimate […]

This post outlines the functions of punctuation marks employed at the end of a sentence: the period, the exclamation point, […]

This post lists and defines words derived from the Latin verb sentire, meaning “feel” or “perceive.” The direct descendant of […]

A noun was traditionally described as “a person, place, or thing,” but some definitions further specify what can constitute a […]