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"2014-05-02T13:40:03+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d95b-7fd4-72f8-9e9e-4b3aad7b9d1a", "title": "Fancy language makes a song and dance of the simplest things", "url": "https://stroppyeditor.wordpress.com/2014/04/24/fancy-language-makes-a-song-and-dance-of-the-simplest-things/", "published_at": "2014-04-24T20:57:31+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d95b-7fd4-72f8-9e9e-4b3aae64f981", "title": "‘I often wondered where they kept it’", "url": "https://stroppyeditor.wordpress.com/2014/04/12/i-often-wondered-where-they-kept-it/", "published_at": "2014-04-12T10:48:45+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d95b-d50a-73cf-91aa-c12ede1d956e", "title": "I literally thought “contranymic” and “heterological” would be good words to use in a blog post title", "url": "https://stroppyeditor.wordpress.com/2014/04/07/i-literally-thought-contranymic-and-heterological-would-be-good-words-to-use-in-a-blog-post-title/", "published_at": "2014-04-07T07:01:44+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d95b-d50a-73cf-91aa-c12ede54aab8", "title": "Arguing over “over”", "url": "https://stroppyeditor.wordpress.com/2014/04/05/arguing-over-over/", "published_at": "2014-04-05T10:48:04+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d95b-d50a-73cf-91aa-c12edf4aa2c7", "title": "Peeving Las Vegas", "url": "https://stroppyeditor.wordpress.com/2014/03/15/peeving-las-vegas/", "published_at": "2014-03-15T18:37:04+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d95b-d50a-73cf-91aa-c12edf64109f", "title": "Editorial haiku", "url": "https://stroppyeditor.wordpress.com/2014/03/10/editorial-haiku/", "published_at": "2014-03-10T19:15:23+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d95b-d50a-73cf-91aa-c12ee00b7d86", "title": "How the Grinch Stole Grammar!", "url": "https://stroppyeditor.wordpress.com/2014/03/04/how-the-grinch-stole-grammar/", "published_at": "2014-03-04T07:45:12+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d95b-d50a-73cf-91aa-c12ee07c6471", "title": "In business writing missing commas stop readers understanding which is bad", "url": "https://stroppyeditor.wordpress.com/2014/02/26/in-business-writing-missing-commas-stop-readers-understanding-which-is-bad/", "published_at": "2014-02-26T08:36:11+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d95b-d50a-73cf-91aa-c12ee1389a48", "title": "Modern standards of grammar do not make you kill yourself", "url": "https://stroppyeditor.wordpress.com/2014/02/18/modern-standards-of-grammar-do-not-make-you-kill-yourself/", "published_at": "2014-02-18T08:17:47+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d95b-d50a-73cf-91aa-c12ee15d289c", "title": "‘It’s not a real word.’ Really?", "url": "https://stroppyeditor.wordpress.com/2014/02/12/not-a-real-word/", "published_at": "2014-02-12T13:28:36+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d95b-d50a-73cf-91aa-c12ee246be33", "title": "We shouldn’t stand for clumsy rhetoric", "url": "https://stroppyeditor.wordpress.com/2014/02/07/we-shouldnt-stand-for-clumsy-rhetoric/", "published_at": "2014-02-07T14:19:30+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d95b-d50a-73cf-91aa-c12ee313d12e", "title": "Apostrophes’ Place", "url": "https://stroppyeditor.wordpress.com/2014/01/24/apostrophes-place/", "published_at": "2014-01-24T08:06:52+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d95c-331f-72de-b67a-74b3730b28b7", "title": "Unknown search terms", "url": "https://stroppyeditor.wordpress.com/2014/01/22/unknown-search-terms/", "published_at": "2014-01-22T13:35:50+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d95c-3320-71a9-9f50-c21a5deca5c2", "title": "The worst kind of editorial mistake: not rocking the boat", "url": "https://stroppyeditor.wordpress.com/2014/01/18/the-worst-kind-of-editorial-mistake-not-rocking-the-boat/", "published_at": "2014-01-18T12:22:10+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d95c-3320-71a9-9f50-c21a5e388262", "title": "Lynne Truss’s linguistics lesson", "url": "https://stroppyeditor.wordpress.com/2014/01/07/lynne-trusss-linguistics-lesson/", "published_at": "2014-01-07T20:54:04+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d95c-3320-71a9-9f50-c21a5e7ca50b", "title": "A number of people doesn’t understand notional agreement", "url": "https://stroppyeditor.wordpress.com/2013/12/16/a-number-of-people-doesnt-understand-notional-agreement/", "published_at": "2013-12-16T09:22:05+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d95c-3320-71a9-9f50-c21a5eb7d069", "title": "The campaign against incompetent pedants", "url": "https://stroppyeditor.wordpress.com/2013/11/20/the-campaign-against-incompetent-pedants/", "published_at": "2013-11-20T22:05:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d95c-3320-71a9-9f50-c21a5eda8807", "title": "The search for meaning in a godless world", "url": "https://stroppyeditor.wordpress.com/2013/11/19/the-search-for-meaning-in-a-godless-world/", "published_at": "2013-11-19T08:15:54+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d95c-3320-71a9-9f50-c21a5ef03099", "title": "While looking and whilst staring, I saw nothing", "url": "https://stroppyeditor.wordpress.com/2013/11/02/while-looking-and-whilst-staring-i-saw-nothing/", "published_at": "2013-11-02T11:44:35+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d95c-3320-71a9-9f50-c21a5ef6bd4a", "title": "To helpfully clarify, to better communicate: a history of the split infinitive", "url": "https://stroppyeditor.wordpress.com/2013/10/28/to-helpfully-clarify-to-better-communicate-a-history-of-the-split-infinitive/", "published_at": "2013-10-28T10:42:57+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d95c-3320-71a9-9f50-c21a5f7a1392", "title": "Pedantry is flagging", "url": "https://stroppyeditor.wordpress.com/2013/10/13/pedantry-is-flagging/", "published_at": "2013-10-13T12:43:12+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d95c-3320-71a9-9f50-c21a606e0273", "title": "Gwynne’s Grammar: an unbelievably positive review", "url": "https://stroppyeditor.wordpress.com/2013/10/08/gwynnes-grammar-an-unbelievably-positive-review/", "published_at": "2013-10-08T07:27:32+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2026

Writing with AI: I couldn’t have put it better myselforiginal ↗
31 Aug 2026
To kindly ask what no one has asked beforeoriginal ↗
26 May 2026
How grammarians failed to contain reflexive pronounsoriginal ↗
13 Apr 2026
Who’s in the news?original ↗
27 Feb 2026
Getting it in for meoriginal ↗
23 Feb 2026

2025

Tom Stoppard on malarkey with wordsoriginal ↗
2 Dec 2025
A shore thing?original ↗
9 Oct 2025
The largest language model anyone could ever needoriginal ↗
29 Jul 2025
Defeating the grammar nazisoriginal ↗
5 May 2025
Folding and conceding: the logic of the rules in our headsoriginal ↗
26 Mar 2025
Stop. And stop.original ↗
9 Jan 2025

2024

A child of so many tantrums?original ↗
23 Dec 2024
When the past is still with usoriginal ↗
17 Jul 2024
People will judge you and me (and you and I) for our bad grammaroriginal ↗
18 Jun 2024
Machines Riseoriginal ↗
5 May 2024

2023

Congratulations and confabulationsoriginal ↗
20 Nov 2023
Leaving everything or leaving nothing? A saying of two halvesoriginal ↗
21 Aug 2023
Colonial English?original ↗
31 Jul 2023
Boffin-biffing buffoons baffled by beef, before befriendingoriginal ↗
29 Mar 2023
When words don’t mean what they’re meant to meanoriginal ↗
13 Jan 2023

2022

Writing skills and grammar teaching: the misinterpreted study of Engliciousoriginal ↗
14 Mar 2022
Bad grammar, bugbears and dæmonsoriginal ↗
3 Jan 2022

2021

Why can’t the English learn to speak about English?original ↗
21 Sept 2021
Fronted adverbials: what the hell is going on with English grammar?original ↗
23 Jan 2021

2019

How do you cope when everyone’s usage is wrong?original ↗
31 Jul 2019

2018

Childhood glimpses of a truer realityoriginal ↗
8 Nov 2018

2017

Alighting the escalator: a transitive in transitoriginal ↗
23 Oct 2017
If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?original ↗
13 Jul 2017
Paul Romer and the World Bank and conjunctions and brevity and bad targetsoriginal ↗
29 May 2017
Word By Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries – by Kory Stamperoriginal ↗
19 Apr 2017
‘Got’ and ‘gotten’ in British and American Englishoriginal ↗
27 Mar 2017

2016

Use split infinitives to better support your meaningoriginal ↗
13 Apr 2016
How “humbled” took prideoriginal ↗
21 Mar 2016
What words “should” mean and what they actually meanoriginal ↗
12 Mar 2016
Grammar haiku win / Win win win win win win win / Did I mention win?original ↗
4 Mar 2016
The meanings of “refute”original ↗
3 Feb 2016
Rabid reactionoriginal ↗
23 Jan 2016
Giving grammar advice? Whatever you do, don’t check itoriginal ↗
4 Jan 2016

2015

I’m a people personoriginal ↗
20 Dec 2015
The Stroppy Editor Word of the Year 2015original ↗
24 Nov 2015
Licence or license? Practice or practise?original ↗
28 Oct 2015
Contractions: which are common and which aren’t?original ↗
12 Oct 2015
The triumph of the linguistic free marketoriginal ↗
14 Sept 2015
Common words you’re probably misusingoriginal ↗
1 Sept 2015
Playing it safe is a dangerous gameoriginal ↗
28 Aug 2015
We need to talk about drug-resistant infectionsoriginal ↗
29 Jul 2015
Synonymous with correct usageoriginal ↗
20 Jul 2015
Fowler’s Dictionary of Modern English Usage (4th edition) – by Jeremy Butterfieldoriginal ↗
16 Jul 2015
They know not what they dooriginal ↗
2 Jul 2015
Michael Gove on “however” and contractionsoriginal ↗
21 Jun 2015
Everything you ever wanted to know about singular “they”original ↗
21 Apr 2015
What style of language do scientists really prefer?original ↗
17 Mar 2015
What the internet desperately needs is another blog post about the Oxford commaoriginal ↗
2 Mar 2015
Accidence Will Happen – by Oliver Kammoriginal ↗
21 Feb 2015
A ridiculously brief, outrageously selective and painfully simplified history of Standard Englishoriginal ↗
6 Feb 2015
A fairy taleoriginal ↗
20 Jan 2015
A test of grammaroriginal ↗
6 Jan 2015

2014

The whale failoriginal ↗
19 Dec 2014
Scraping the sky, raking the moon, tall tales and horseplayoriginal ↗
15 Dec 2014
“Publicly” and “publically”original ↗
9 Dec 2014
Cock stars and unparliamentary languageoriginal ↗
30 Nov 2014
Physician, explain thyself: science English vs lay Englishoriginal ↗
27 Nov 2014
Bad reactions to usage: it cuts both waysoriginal ↗
25 Nov 2014
Our survey says…original ↗
15 Nov 2014
Ask a stupid questionoriginal ↗
10 Nov 2014
Recoiling from complexityoriginal ↗
4 Nov 2014
Guerrilla copyediting Simon Hefferoriginal ↗
21 Sept 2014
Same differenceoriginal ↗
28 Aug 2014
For writersoriginal ↗
19 Aug 2014
Doctor, doctor…original ↗
8 Aug 2014
Write for a single readeroriginal ↗
4 Aug 2014
Blog comments policyoriginal ↗
29 Jul 2014
Passive aggressionoriginal ↗
9 Jul 2014
Bad grammaroriginal ↗
18 Jun 2014
Grammar: theory and practiceoriginal ↗
21 May 2014
Bryan Garner’s language-change indexoriginal ↗
14 May 2014
Pickiness is not perfectionismoriginal ↗
7 May 2014
Same grammar, less metonymyoriginal ↗
2 May 2014
Fancy language makes a song and dance of the simplest thingsoriginal ↗
24 Apr 2014
‘I often wondered where they kept it’original ↗
12 Apr 2014
I literally thought “contranymic” and “heterological” would be good words to use in a blog post titleoriginal ↗
7 Apr 2014
Arguing over “over”original ↗
5 Apr 2014
Peeving Las Vegasoriginal ↗
15 Mar 2014
Editorial haikuoriginal ↗
10 Mar 2014
How the Grinch Stole Grammar!original ↗
4 Mar 2014
In business writing missing commas stop readers understanding which is badoriginal ↗
26 Feb 2014
Modern standards of grammar do not make you kill yourselforiginal ↗
18 Feb 2014
‘It’s not a real word.’ Really?original ↗
12 Feb 2014
We shouldn’t stand for clumsy rhetoricoriginal ↗
7 Feb 2014
Apostrophes’ Placeoriginal ↗
24 Jan 2014
Unknown search termsoriginal ↗
22 Jan 2014
The worst kind of editorial mistake: not rocking the boatoriginal ↗
18 Jan 2014
Lynne Truss’s linguistics lessonoriginal ↗
7 Jan 2014

2013

A number of people doesn’t understand notional agreementoriginal ↗
16 Dec 2013
The campaign against incompetent pedantsoriginal ↗
20 Nov 2013
The search for meaning in a godless worldoriginal ↗
19 Nov 2013
While looking and whilst staring, I saw nothingoriginal ↗
2 Nov 2013
To helpfully clarify, to better communicate: a history of the split infinitiveoriginal ↗
28 Oct 2013
Pedantry is flaggingoriginal ↗
13 Oct 2013
Gwynne’s Grammar: an unbelievably positive revieworiginal ↗
8 Oct 2013
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