by Nancy Haight | Jan 3, 2025 | Editing
It’s time to get a grip on English. We gotta clinch it. Or do we clench it? Uh-oh…I sense word-choice insecurity. I recently came across this sentence during an editing project: “They will be crushed,” the warlord said, clinching his fist. Word Alert! Historically,...
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...
