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Abbreviating Months and Days

By Judy Vorfeld Wonder how to abbre­vi­ate days of the week and months? Let’s take three excel­lent style guides and see what they offer. THE GREGG REFERENCE MANUAL, TENTH EDITION (502) says, “Days of the week, names of the months … should be abbre­vi­ated only on busi­ness forms, […]

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All About Alliteration

By Judy Vorfeld Have you ever wanted to become an expert on allit­er­a­tion? If noth­ing else, it’s a beau­ti­ful word! Seriously, when one uses allit­er­a­tion prop­erly – espe­cially in pub­li­ca­tions – it is sub­tly effec­tive. If you work on Web sites, ezines, or print pub­li­ca­tion, this may be a good time for you […]

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Figures of Speech: Using Quotation Marks

By Judy Vorfeld When should we use quo­ta­tion marks for fairly com­mon expres­sions and fig­ures of speech, includ­ing slang? (A fig­ure of speech is a word or phrase such as a metaphor, sim­ile, hyper­bole , or per­son­i­fi­ca­tion, accord­ing to Wikipedia.) Quotation marks are rarely needed for com­mon expres­sions, says […]

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Is the Internet Changing Everything?

By Judy Vorfeld Once upon a time, before the Kádár regime closed the bor­ders between Austria and Hungary, 194,000 Hungarians fled their home­land. Among these peo­ple were des­per­ate, deter­mined mem­bers of a very spe­cial fam­ily. They headed out one dark night, tak­ing turns car­ry­ing a small girl as they raced […]

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How to Win the Grammar Game

As orig­i­nally pub­lished in VirtualPROMOTE Gazette http://jimworld.com By Judy Vorfeld Are you one of the many bright peo­ple who speaks well but has trou­ble with the mechan­ics of writ­ing: fol­low­ing those con­fus­ing rules con­cern­ing spelling, punc­tu­at­ing, cap­i­tal­iz­ing, etc.? Is a rel­a­tive, co-worker or edi­tor con­stantly whip­ping out a dictionary, […]

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