Grammar snobs are a distinct breed from their gentle…

“If Readers have prejudices, that's the writing world we live in. We must decide how to navigate it. We can't please all the Readers…

— June Casagrande

“Rumor had it that Professor Jerkwad had a history of holding classes in bars and using the school's senior class as harvesting grounds for…

— June Casagrande

“For Whom the Snob Trolls”

— June Casagrande

“This chapter is dedicated to those other delights of punctuation--exquisite little squiggles, those most delightful dots and dashes, and other tragically under-appreciated tiny tidbits!…

— June Casagrande

“If you want to master the art of the sentence, you must first accept a somewhat unpleasant truth--something a lot of writers would rather…

— June Casagrande

“Is that a dangler in your memo or are you just glad to see me?”

— June Casagrande

“I hope that, by this point, you're feeling a little less intimidated by the meanies, because I've got some bad news: Meanies come in…

— June Casagrande

“You must now--before God, Jon Stewart, and whoever's sleeping next to you (even if these entities are one and the same)--make a solemn oath.”

— June Casagrande

“As you can see, the hyphen is a nasty, tricky, evil little mark that gets its kicks igniting arguments in newsrooms and trying to…

— June Casagrande

“Amateur grammar snobs are a lot like amateur gynecologists--they're everywhere, they're all to eager to offer their services, and they're anything but gentle.”

— June Casagrande