When it comes to correct English, “the lunatics are running the asylum,” says Steven Pinker in his new book, A Sense of Style. In a long chapter titled “Telling Right from Wrong,” Pinker tries…
Month: February 2015
No Thanks: Six More Words and Phrases to Avoid
Small wording changes can liven up your style by speeding up and punching up your prose. Let’s match wits with some of the world’s best judicial writers below. Or is that “with certain of…
No Thanks: Six Words and Phrases to Avoid
Small wording changes can liven up your style by speeding up and punching up your prose. To see how it works, let’s match wits with some of the world’s best judicial writers below. Or…