Sic! The illiterati are out in force
Waterstones has outraged the grammar police by dropping the apostrophe from its logo. The Twittersphere is ablaze with the defence of a punctuation mark that Boots, Morrisons, and Debenhams seem…
From swanky New York to Birmingham balti
Say ‘Birmingham’ to a New Yorker and they’ll be thinking Sweet Home, Alabama, not Brum’s inner-city Balti Triangle. But, America’s popular newspaper The New York Times has ranked England’s second…
Affect or effect
If you search for the words affect and effect on the web, you’ll find, generally speaking, that the advice to help you differentiate between the two words is to remember that…
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