The following is a guest post by Marcia Johnston. Marcia lives in Portland, Oregon, at the intersection of Writing, User Experience, Information Architecture, and Content Strategy. She is the president of Marcia Riefer Johnston, Inc. They has gone singular. So have their, them, and themselves. We’re assailed every day by sentences like these: “What’s annoying to me isn’t someone using their phone at the table, it’s the … more »

Language Log » What’s wrong with this passage?.

This podcast from Stephen Fry on language is one of the most entertaining, thought-provoking, well-read essays on language I’ve ever heard. In the podcast, Fry says he often encounters people who consider themselves high-minded grammarians, who assume he is on their side when they express their disgust of common grammar errors, such as “12 Items or Less” signs in grocery stories (rather than “fewer”), or … more »

A Tech Writer’s World: A Killer Manual.

The Chicago Manual of Style Online

Apostrophe Protection Society. Someone’s grammar pet peeve becomes the foundation for a society?