[Image courtesy of stockimages at FreeDigitalPhotos.net] When you write for a living, you can’t help but notice all the little mistakes out there. Each one is like an itch that you’ve got to scratch. And sometimes, it seems as if […]

Just the other day, a client picked me up on something I’d written in a case study. Productivity increased dramatically, though costs went up only marginally. “Shouldn’t that be costs only went up marginally?” he said tentatively. He was sure, […]

It’s been a while since I let pictures take the place of words, so here we go again with Copycam. It’s my occasional series on copy that’s caught my eye and addled my brain, captured with my trusty Nokia (still […]

Though we can just about get our heads around commas, full stops and hyphens, it’s the apostrophe that trips us up more than any other element of punctuation. As Lynn Truss pointed out in her book Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero […]