Language Category

Incorporating Interesting Idioms In Your Writing

Monday, January 17th, 2011

Guest post by William Hawkins
Have you ever heard or used certain sayings, and while you automatically may know the meaning, you’re not quite sure where the saying came from, or why others use that very same saying? These sayings are called idioms. Idioms are special phrases with figurative meanings that are different than their literal [...]

How to capitalize a title or heading

Sunday, May 3rd, 2009

Need some help creating a website, blog, or ezine title using all (well, sort of) initial caps? Here’s the general consensus regarding capitalization of titles:

Capitalize all words with four or more letters. Capitalize words with fewer than four letters except:

Articles: a, an, the.
Short Conjunctions: and, or, nor, for, but, so, yet.
Short Prepositions: prepositions like [...]

All About Alliteration

Friday, February 15th, 2008

When is a Principal a Principle?

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

Suspended Hyphens

Saturday, January 26th, 2008

Criteria or Criterion?

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

Compliment or Complement?

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

Imply vs. Infer

Thursday, February 15th, 2007

The Meaning of Tingo and …

Friday, June 30th, 2006

Insure, Ensure, or Assure?

Sunday, February 5th, 2006