In the book To Kill a Democracy: India's Passage to Despotism by Debashish Roy Chowdhury and John Keane, I came across this sentence...

The sentence (suitably disguised for confidentiality) stopped me in my tracks: "The absence of pregnancy and lactation may explain the...

The book I was editing was about personal transformation for corporate managers. The author was a well-known coach. The language was so...

The difference between summation and sum should be clear enough: summation is the process of adding, whereas a sum is the result of the...

On a hot afternoon many years ago, a trainee editor walked in with furrowed brow and deposited the following offending sentence in my...

Twelve years ago, I emailed a friend, congratulating him on his impending marriage. A few days later, we spoke, and he questioned my use...

This is a terribly worded public health message that seems to be spreading like a virus: it is now appended to routine SMSs from public...

Double punctuation is ugly, but unavoidable sometimes. For example, it appears in dialogue: He said, "I try to avoid double punctuation."...

In a previous post (on researcher name coincidences), I mentioned Indian and British English: A Handbook of Usage and Pronunciation by...

The typo is the bane of the copyeditor. However careful I am, I'll invariably find a handful during my final read. It could be an extra...

For many years, we used 3M storage products for data backup in the company where I worked, and I always thought there was something wrong...

Humor and academia are an unlikely combination, and I didn't think they could coexist until I read Academia Obscura: The Hidden Silly...