by Nancy Haight | Mar 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
I’m Irish. I’m also Portuguese, French, German, English, Dutch, and Scottish. But because of that little slice of Irish, I especially like St. Patrick’s Day. My daughters are older now (one is in college), but I still got my 16-year-old Lucky Charms today so she...
by Nancy Haight | Jan 31, 2025 | Uncategorized
In case you aren’t familiar with an em dash, I put it in the title as a visual aid. It’s name comes from it being the same width as the letter m; similarly, an en dash is the same width as the letter n. An easy way to find these symbols in Microsoft Word is to click...
by Nancy Haight | Dec 30, 2024 | Uncategorized
Hmm. Have an itch? Do you scratch it or itch it? English can be so irritating (pun intended). Scratch Scratch as a verb most commonly means to tend to an itch, usually by scraping it with your fingernails. But here’s the rub: it can also be a noun. If you get an owie...
by Nancy Haight | Dec 29, 2024 | Uncategorized
Have you watched The Queen’s Gambit on Netflix? Do you enjoy playing chess? If so, you may find yourself accidentally confusing “gamut” with “gambit,” as one of my clients recently did. In fact, over the past year, I have seen confusion over these two words pop up...
by Nancy Haight | Dec 29, 2024 | Uncategorized
I edit a lot, like a lot a lot, and I’ve come across some funny typos over the last fifteen years. Some of my favorites are “the whole gambit” instead of “the whole gamut” (a gambit is a chess move) and using “escape goat” when it should be “scapegoat,” which is...
