While an accident is rarely a laughing matter, we’ve found the recovery phase can be an entirely different story. Just recently, the younger of our two dogs, Jasmine, was so […]
Sometimes the subtlety of punctuation use escapes writers, especially those who are not all that familiar with employing – some might say quaint – typographical marks such as the hyphen […]
It’s pretty sad when our Prime Minister hasn’t got his head around the correct use of the word neither. Sadly, he’s not alone. Yesterday, the PM was criticising his opposite […]
There are times when you really wish that there was a truth in advertising law … and that it had some real bite. For nearly two years now, Coles supermarkets […]
Well, I’ve now reached 25 Style Matters posts on the reporting4work.com.au website over the past few months and still have plenty of potential entries to add to this growing […]
I’m tiring of seeing the wanton use of the exclamation mark(!), aren’t you? Advertisers and marketers overuse it, email writers seem to employ it with gay abandon and I’ve even […]
Granted, the apostrophe has two rather different main roles when punctuating sentences, but its distinct applications are not that difficult to learn, remember and apply. Yet the oft-abused apostrophe is […]
While most writers are encouraged to minimise the use of capital (upper case) letters – because they have a tendency to arrest the eye and slow down the reader – […]
I’ve recently noticed our esteemed and usually linguistically precise news personnel on our national broadcaster have been referring to people who come from Afghanistan as Afghanis. However, the word Afghani […]
There many words in everyday language that are redundant – or, at best, misused – in newswriting or, for that matter, in other writing genres. In an earlier post, we […]
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