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The mysteries of pronunciation are solved! Not sure how to pronounce boson, dais, belfry, duchy, or denigrated? Check out the talking dictionary at howjsay.com. Sooo cool.

Surprise!  It’s both. Login is the noun.  Log in is the verb.  So, you log in to your website using your login.  Got it? Have some more helpful writing tips?  We always love to hear them.

Some punctuation rules are pretty clear. You know that a period belongs at the end of a sentence. Quotation marks go around direct quotes. Exclamation points, in general, don’t belong anywhere in your copy. But hyphen rules are not so clear cut (or is it clear-cut?). It seems that everybody has their own in-house “rules” [...]

A great tip from our friends at Shae Writing: This is a quick and easy way to find all the acronyms in an MS Word document. Remember that this command searches for consecutive capital letters, so it cannot distinguish between ‘SCBA’ and ‘DO NOT.’ For Word 2003: 1. Open the ‘Find’ window (Ctrl + F). [...]

So Redbox may not be the first company to bribe their customer base into fanning their Facebook page. And they definitely won’t be last. But hey, it works. I’m going to get my free movie tonight.