“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 a long string of wives who never seemed to stay married to him past age twenty-eight.… — June Casagrande Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Grammar snobs are a distinct breed from their gentle cousins: word nerds and grammar geeks. The difference is bloodlust.” — June Casagrande Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
