Proper paragraphs: how to format in Word
Word automatically forces you to add a space between paragraghs and doesn’t indent at the beginning of each line, which, […]
internet or Internet?
Back in the day, the internet wasn’t considered a proper noun, so wasn’t capitalised.
What a week
And that wraps up my first week lecturing at the University of Salzburg. It’s been thrilling putting my brain back […]
Just a FYI – ‘favourite’ is spelled ‘favorite’ without the ‘u’.
Would you believe this is exactly what was sent to me in an email last week!? After I finished chuckling […]
To capitalize or not?
I’ve just had a very peculiar response to an English proofread I completed for a German speaker. She had written […]
Tea break English
I was flicking through an old school book of mine earlier and stumbled across this little poem, the original was […]
Get it write!
Draw your mind back to your English lessons: dwell on all those dubious book choices you were dragged though and […]
Great iPhone apps to sort out your English (2009)
Have a look at these little beauties from 2009 that help your grammar with a touch of a button/screen! It’s […]
a little experiment
i wondered this morning what it would be like to write a post with no punctuation whatsoever and also see […]
autumn or Autumn?
Would you believe it? It’s mid October and outside the snow is drifting gently to the ground. Amazing, (said the […]