mighty red pen @mightyredpen
Grammar, word nerds, and the editorial way. Alter ego of @sofiatromero mightyredpen.wordpress.com Wordnerdlandia Joined December 2008-
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It’s me! My alter ego @sofiatromero wrote a book of short stories that’s coming out 10/10/23 ☺️
It’s me! My alter ego @sofiatromero wrote a book of short stories that’s coming out 10/10/23 ☺️
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Welp, sending me an email with the salutation “Hey Phil” is one way to get my attention … but not in a good way …
How to drive the editor at your workplace a little bonkers
An email I got. Every editor’s nightmare: You forgot to proof the subject line before sending the email.
Today on Words Matter: kidnapping BY Boston University vs kidnapping NEAR Boston University
We will not know what apostrophe we have.. until it’s gone
Don’t talk about tpyos
Idk but none of those look like green beans to me
These sheets from @thecompanystore are called Sparrows and idk I’m no bird expert but I am pretty sure those are chickadees
Today on Wut Even Is This Headline: “Convicted Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer kidnap plotters send private investigator to juror’s workplace”
Just heard a lovely interview with @GrammarTable on @MorningEdition. Love your sensible approach, Ellen! And totally agree … the “correctors” are often actually wrong lol
For all employees’ safety, please move this apostrophe
We don’t always Random Cap, but when we do, at least we are consistent across languages
When people refer to the editing I'm going to do as "polish."
You might be a word nerd if … your first thought was “Who on earth loves the Handmaids Tale so much they have an Offred vanity plate?”
This guy on Jeopardy has Bigfoots on his shirt. Or are they Bigfeet? Bigsfoot?
I would pay a lot for a FB plug in that just blocked every comment that said "Following"
Final #Jeopardy was “Italian for ‘mercy’”and the answer was “clemenza” which the internet tells me is “clemency”… but mercy and clemency aren’t the same right?
Acting like Gen X doesn't even exist is peak Boomer
Acting like Gen X doesn't even exist is peak Boomer
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @LeVostreGC
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"IRREGARDLESS" HAS BEEN AROUND SINCE 1795. ITS INCLUSION IN THE DICTIONARY IS NOT A SIGN OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE FALLING TO PIECES, OR PROOF OF THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM FAILING, NOR IS IT THE WORK OF CURSED MILLENNIALS. IT JUST MEANS A LOT OF PEOPLE USE IT TO MEAN "REGARDLESS."
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This is not a drill: Everyone into your afternoon nap boxes!
I didn't even know chickens were inspiring pain.
If you’re looking for a New Year’s resolution, I suggest switching from two spaces to one space after end punctuation. (My New Year’s resolution is to start more fights on social media, because I don’t think we have enough of those.)
Now seems like a good time to mention again that you can find me on all those other unnameable socmed sites as "wisekaren." Look for me; I'll look for you!
On my flight today I woke up from a nap & an attendant was walking down the aisle holding a pug, saying “we found this pug. Whose pug is this??” And for 3 hours we all just took turns holding the mystery pug until a verrrry stoned man in the last row woke up & was like “Roscoe?!”
This is a pretty surprising etymology, but the really cool thing is that it's connected to several more surprising etymologies.
Because you can see a tiny reflection of yourself when you look in someone’s eyes, PUPIL derives from a Latin word meaning ‘little doll’.
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