Karen Reddick, The Editor’s Blog

There are hundreds of words that are commonly misspelled in the English language (including the word misspell). Since I can’t list them all, here are my top A-Z picks for the most commonly misspelled words, and tips to help you remember.
accommodate – This word is long enough to accommodate both a double [c] AND a [...]

The use of punctuation with parentheses and quotation marks can seem pretty confusing. There is no secret or trick; just try to remember the hard and fast rule is: parentheses out, quotations in.
Of course, there are always exceptions, which I’ll show you below.
Here are a few examples of punctuating with parentheses and quotations. Notice carefully [...]

Making the correct word choice can be tricky business for writers. Many of our words sound the same, and are sometimes similar in spelling, that we often get “tripped” up on which word is correct.
Here are just a few examples I found in one of my favorite eBooks by Barbara McNichol [...]

Jan Clark, a grammar tips reader from Colorado, wrote to me and asked me to revisit an earlier tip about the difference between insure, ensure, and assure.
Ensure and insure are words that sound the same but are spelled differently; and, assure sounds so similar to these two words, that many people [...]

Many people think None is short for Not One, Not Any, or No One and therefore should always be singular.
But I disagree. Let’s take a look.
Examples:
None of the books were worth reading.
None of the book was worth reading.
See? Plural and singular.
Here’s how to remember this:
If you can replace not any [...]

I don’t know where or how the use of using myself in a sentence, in place of I or me began, but grammarians will agree that we wish it would stop. Perhaps saying I or me seemed a bit egotistical, so people began to replace these pronouns with the more polite sounding [...]