Last year, actress Jennifer Lawrence made headlines when she wrote an essay about the gender gap in salaries for male versus female actors. Lawrence pointed out that even in this day and age, male actors earn more than their female
Do you find yourself using the words used vs. utilized interchangeably? If you do, you’re not alone. A lot of people write utilized when they could just as well write used. Ever wonder why? There’s a simple answer: used vs.
In 2008, just after losing a court case about breaking labour laws, Walmart got a makeover. It swapped the bold capital letters it had used throughout its 46-year history (i.e., “WAL-MART”) with a capitalized “w” and lowercase type for the
When I was in grad school, we sometimes had professors from other universities visit our department to give guest talks. One of these guest talks, however, didn’t go as planned. Things started out just as they always did: the speaker,
Late last month, Donald Trump created a media firestorm when he publicly stated that Hillary Clinton has been successful in the 2016 US presidential campaign only because she’s a woman: “if Hillary Clinton were a man, I don’t think she’d
Have trouble remembering the difference between the words “compose” and “comprise”? You’re not alone. Because these words are so similar in how they sound and how they’re spelled, it can be hard to remember how they differ. In fact, many
Just over a week ago, Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide marketing, Phil Schiller, created an uproar on Twitter when he tweeted that “One need never pluralize Apple product names.” Say what? According to Schiller, “iPhone” is both the singular
Ever write something like “Mike and Kelly’s house” and wonder where the apostrophes are supposed to go? Do you place the apostrophe and the “s” on the end of both names or just on the last one? Well, you’re in
How do you know whether to use “a” versus “an” in front of a word? Many of us were taught in elementary school that we use “a” in front of nouns that begin with consonant letters (e.g., “a crown”) and
You don’t have to look far to find examples of typos or grammar errors in tweets posted by celebrities. Of course, everyone makes mistakes sometimes, and in certain cases, a mistake may be as innocent as an autocorrect fail. If