Thursday, March 6, 2008
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Whence Grammar Prescriptivism? John McIntyre, copy editor for the Baltimore Sun, examines the history of uptight grammar geeks who correct all those around them.
John And Dottie Dis NYC Tasting Menus Wall Street Journal wine couple John and Dottie try out a few NYC tasting menus and come away disappointed.
Search UN's Statistics The UN has collected extensive statistics from its members over the last 60 years and stored them in a variety of inaccessible databases. Now you can search across all those databases from your computer.
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Its National Grammar Day Grammar prescriptivists have put forth March 4 as National Grammar Day, so go forth and place or remove apostrophes and commas as needed.
Kevin Reviews AoE Kevin Weeks writes a review of uber-food magazine The Art of Eating for the online magazine Spot-On
DST Wastes Energy An article in the Wall Street Journal points to a recent study that demonstrates conclusively that Daylight Savings Time wastes more energy than it saves.
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