Let’s face it, grammar is more important for some people than for others. An ambulance driver probably has more important things to worry about than whether to hyphenate adverbs ending in “ly.” (FYI: ...

I fielded a question recently about “minding your p’s and q’s.” I had used that expression in a column a few weeks ago, and it prompted an email from a reader named Christine who was curious about ...

Hi there,<BR><BR>at my company we still use Word 97, so far without too much trouble.<BR>Now, after moving, we see a problem with automatic corrections of straight quotes. Word seems to replace all ...