Grammar

The difference between "work out" and "workout"

Sarah

Oct 29, 20141 min read

The difference between "work out" and "workout"

Grammar PSA for the instagram fitness crowd. I see this every day. E.g.: Nice abs, but your grammar needs work. "Workout" is a noun. It's...

Sarah

Feb 19, 20143 min read

RuPaul's Drag Race vocabulary guide

My friend Tyler is a doctor of clinical psychiatry who recently put his brainpower to work in an email thread introducing a friend to a...

Quotes about writing from Stephen King's "On Writing"

Sarah

Feb 10, 20143 min read

Quotes about writing from Stephen King's "On Writing"

I read Stephen King's "On Writing" recently and loved it. It's full of great quotes about writing. I compiled all the ones that I...

Exclamation points are the worst punctuation

Sarah

Aug 23, 20132 min read

Exclamation points are the worst punctuation

I propose that we get rid of the exclamation point. They're the grammatical equivalent of a temper tantrum: adults shouldn't have them,...

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