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National Punctuation Day Contest
September 24 is National Punctuation Day! Send an ode to your favorite punctuation mark to [email protected]. The week of the 24th, we’ll feature the best entries as the tip-of-day in the Grammar Girl e-mail newsletter, and one entry may be … Continue reading
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Snow Leopard and the Interrobang
Douglas Cootey (@SplinteredMind at Twitter) tells me that Snow Leopard, the new Mac operating system, has a text substitution function that you can set up so it inserts an interrobang (‽) when you type something such as ?! Here’s how … Continue reading
How Can We Get Remaindered, Set-To-Be Pulped Books to Charities Who Want Them?
A dirty secret of the book publishing industry is that millions of books are pulped (shredded) each year. For example, the BBC reported in 2001 that “Up to one million books per month are being pulped in Britain.” Despite this … Continue reading
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Noun + Verb = Nerb?
Tyler (@tdhurst) wondered whether there is a special name for words that can be both a noun and a verb, such as “paint” and “run.” I didn’t think so, but I wasn’t sure, so I put the question out to … Continue reading
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BTG004 Interview with Evo Terra, Founder of Podiobooks
Evo Terra, co-author of Podcasting for Dummies (with Tee Morris) and founder of Podiobooks.com, talks about authors who release their books as free audio at his site. Topics we covered include Success stories What doesn’t work? Tips for producing a … Continue reading
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iPhone With Video or the Flip?
I asked my Twitter friends whether I should upgrade my iPhone to the new version with video or buy a Flip camera. Here are the responses. (I used http://twickie.pirillo.com/ to compile the responses and it didn’t seem to grab all … Continue reading
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What Do You Call Making Up Words?
In the book Personal Effects: Dark Arts by JC Hutchins (@jchutchins), a guy makes up words hoping people will use them (for example, he makes up the word “foolbiscuit” to mean idiot). My favorite pop-culture instance of this is the … Continue reading
What to Do With Your Summer
With summer coming up, my husband and I were talking about important lessons we learned in college, and what we wish someone would have told us when we were younger. Here’s my top lesson: Forget about making money during the … Continue reading
Tips for Online Video
I made a video episode for the Grammar Girl podcast this week, and it was quite an ordeal, which is why the show came out two days late. I learned a lot along the way, so I thought I’d share … Continue reading
Capitalizing Internet
On the Grammar Girl website, I explain that the reason most publications capitalize “Internet” is that it’s the name of one specific thing or place, making it a proper noun. Yesterday I was reading the New Scientist (May 2, 2009) … Continue reading