Depending on how old you are, you might remember being told in school about the difference between a dictionary and a thesaurus, and being shown a physical version of both. Alternatively, you might have used websites like Thesaurus.com, or simply right-clicked a word on a Microsoft Word document to (more…)

I often think it would be easier if English followed the same rule as German and started all nouns with (more…)

When writing an article that contains a lot of information the reader needs to digest, it can be tempting to condense this into bullet-pointed lists, but does this help, or is it just a lazy way of (more…)

When editing, I’m always hesitant to ask a writer to stop using a word. Doing that can seem like asking someone to stunt their vocabulary. Having said that, there are certain words that I find myself changing or deleting 90% of the time, and one of the biggest culprits is (more…)

From as soon as we start writing, we are told that the first letter of a sentence should always be capitalised, but just occasionally, is it OK to (more…)