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 […]

  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 […]

I often decry the misuse and slow disappearance of the comma (,) because it is probably the most handy punctuation device in a writer’s artillery. This tiny mark plays a […]

Everybody deserves to have their name spelled or spoken correctly. To see or hear your name, even your nickname, misspelled in writing, or mispronounced on air, is a personal affront […]