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A very short history of the F-word

To Use or Not Use the "?" in Requests

Idiomatic Expressions: 7 Common Idioms That Come from Chickens

The “KNOLL”edge You Need To Always Win At Wordle Part 2

The “KNOLL”edge You Need To Always Win At Wordle

FOR THE LOVE OF SENTENCES

Idiomatic Expressions: 9 Idioms from American Football

The QUOTATIVE--LIKE!

White House Establishes Women’s Health Research Initiative

The USS Biloxi saw combat all over the world. A look at the Navy ship’s history

There's GOLD In Them Thar Hills! Unlocking the Treasures of Our Precious Mountains

Transcribing the Spoken Word

Idiomatic Expression: Dog Days

Coronary Artery Disease in Women A Historical Perspective

The History And Traditions That Make Hanukkah Light Up

New episode of "Preserves" podcast released

How Juan Pujol Garcia (a.k.a. “Garbo”) Made The D-Day Invasion Happen

FANBOYS: A review of coordinating conjunctions

Idiomatic Expression: Drunk as a skunk

TRANSCRIBING AND TRANSCRIPTION--Why Transcribe?

TODAY'S DOCUMENT FROM THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES

So, should you put comma after sentence-initial so?

Outspoken: A COPH Podcast

Who is Joe Blow?

A chorus of exclamation points

Librarians are AWESOME!

A GUIDE TO COLLOQUIAL CONTRACTIONS

How to Use Semicolons Correctly

U.S. Army overturns convictions of 110 Black soldiers in 1917 Houston riot at Camp Logan

Operation Clipper: The Fight for Geilenkirchen

CMOS: New Questions and Answers

Grammarphobia: A questionable caticism

From wonderful Grammar Girl: In honor of Veterans Day, Ben Yagoda tells us tales of military words that marched from the British lexicon to American English and influence the way we speak today.

XIX Corps Breaks through the Siegfried Line

Why North Carolina Is the Most Linguistically Diverse U.S. State

Flat out or at a snail’s pace? Talking about speed

Zonderwater: a concentration camp in South Africa

Prefixes: A Nonissue, or a Non-Issue?

When Hyphenation Is Unnecessary

Death in the West: The Battle of the Ruhr Pocket

Steal a March

Monuments Men: Preserving Cultural Heritage During a Period of Great Turmoil

Why Are Unidentified People Called John or Jane Doe?

Where Did the Term ‘Up to Snuff’ Originate?

The Origins of the International Tracing Service

AI speech recognition technology vs. reality!

INDEFINITE ARTICLE WITH INITIALISMS

For the Love of Sentences

Delivering the Atomic Bombs: The Silverplate B-29

Beg the Question: It's not begging at all

Schweinfurt–Regensburg Raid: August 17, 1943

A Guide to Using Colons

Swear like a sailor

607th Quartermaster Graves Registration Company: Unit History

Commas and Periods with Quotation Marks

The icing/frosting on the cake: differences between British and American idioms

It's Labor Day Weekend in the U.S.

The Perils of Liberation: In the Crossfire Outside Stalag III-C

Green Shoots and Fertile Ground: Idioms with nature words

The Difference between Appositives and Descriptions

“City, State”: A Comma with Two Competing Roles

And the laughs just keep coming!

WHICH AND THAT TO INTRODUCE CLAUSES

What Does It Mean to ‘Put the Kibosh’ on Something?

Pouring your heart out and bottling it up: Idioms for showing and not showing emotions

Trinity: Why It Really Mattered

Tightening Your Belt and Wearing the Trousers: Clothes Idioms

Do you ALWAYS put a comma after (he, she, or they) said?

Spluttering, cackling and drawling: verbs to use instead of ‘say’

THE IMPORTANCE OF SLANG, GRAMMAR, PUNCTUATION, AND THE INTEGRITY OF THE VOICE

From Dictionary.com: What Does The 🫠 Melting Face Emoji Mean?

They Need Adept!

What are we remembering on Memorial Day?

The use of LIKE in spoken English

FAQs Friday: Questions We Encountered This Week!

Learn your audience’s values, beliefs, and preferred words before developing your material.

From the New York Times and Frank Bruni. I LOVE "For the Love of Sentences"

The thing about oral histories is . . .

Capturing the Spoken Word: A Virtual Oral History Workshop

Cattywampus and Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes

Wait--to traipse is a bad thing!?