The Write Blog

We’d like to thank everyone who submitted grammar-fail photos for our grammar-fail photo contest.  We’ll post finalists on Wednesday, October 20 — be sure to stop by and vote for your favorite!  Voting ends Wednesday, October 27. Thanks again for submitting photos!

Good news for all word nerds: The Associated Press has finally made the switch from the old-fashioned “Web site” to the simpler, more natural-looking “website.” Yay! To me, “Web site” has always seemed a little stuffy and English teacher-ish. Good for AP to know when it’s time to change things up. According to the AP’s [...]

Last week, we kicked off a mini-series of AP Stylebook-themed blog posts. This week, we’re sharing a few more gems of wisdom from The AP Stylebook Online. Q: What’s the rule for capitalizing a person’s title? A: It’s complicated, but here are the basics: AP defines a formal title as “one that denotes a scope [...]

Image via Wikipedia How’s this for a proofreading horror story: Because of a teeny little typo, people calling for a free cab service on New Year’s Eve ended up connecting with an “adult” chat line instead. Oops. That’s the kind of mistake that most likely ends in a lost client and a very, very unhappy [...]

Image via Wikipedia Today, one of our most grammar-savvy clients emailed us with a question. She asked: If a sentence says, ‘A policy (that/which) protects the merchant against penalties . . . ’ should you use ‘that’ or ‘which’? And why? I wasn’t 100% sure I knew the right answer. I was pretty sure. Mostly [...]