Column: Make mine a portmanteau
Commentary by Curtis Honeycutt I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: We Americans…
Browsing: Grammar Guy
Column: How to own apostrophes
Commentary by Curtis Honeycutt John Lennon famously got in trouble in August 1966 when an…
Column: Get away from gotten
Commentary by Curtis Honeycutt Can something sound wrong, but actually be right? Take, for instance,…
Column: Setting up the setup
Commentary by Curtis Honeycutt I don’t attend many movies with groups anymore. Part of that…
Column: To be or not be correct?
Commentary by Curtis Honeycutt The following is a scenario based on real events. Any names…
Column: Raising Cain over rear
Commentary by Curtis Honeycutt Cliff from Wilmington points out how I recently wrote that I…
Column: Should’ve known better
Commentary by Curtis Honeycutt Americans like being the best at things. We’re the best at…
Column: Well, it’s all well and good
Commentary by Curtis Honeycutt According to G.K. Chesterton, “The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For…
Column: An apostrophe-free farmers market
Commentary by Curtis Honeycutt I love this time of year for many reasons, but perhaps…
Column: Untangling intransitive verbs
Commentary by Curtis Honeycutt I ran into my friend Lou at the farmers market on…