My latest blog posts on writing, language, and social media.
- How to write ages in a sentence
I recently received this reader-submitted question: Hello Kim, I stumbled upon your website while looking for something I found hard to even google, so here I am with a question! For the travel website me and my partner own, we are writing a feature article about someone, and I’m puzzled about which one is the… Continue reading How to write ages in a sentence - Reader question: When do you capitalize “husband”?
A reader recently emailed me this question: A woman who is a columnist for our local San Luis Obispo Tribune always capitalizes the word husband when it precedes his name, i.e. Husband Richard. She also capitalizes Son Sean. When I grumbled about it to a friend who edits books she claimed that was proper. Wondering… Continue reading Reader question: When do you capitalize “husband”? - Difference between evoke and invoke
This is part of the difference between series. I recently encountered a document that misused the word invoke, confusing it for evoke. So I thought I’d do a post on the difference between the two. Evoke Evoke is used when the speaker wants to communicate a calling forth or a calling up. For example, if you want… Continue reading Difference between evoke and invoke - Difference between more than and over
This is part of the difference between series. Last month, Unifor, a union in Canada, held an online writing workshop for their research and communications team. Related to this was the following tweet they sent out. Here’s the thing though: using over instead of more than isn’t a writing mistake. I quote tweeted their tweet saying as… Continue reading Difference between more than and over - Should I capitalize husband?One of my readers is writing a work of fiction and needed to know whether to capitalize “husband”. Here’s my answer.
- Sopping wet, not slopping wet
I was recently searching for something, when I came across the phrase “slopping wet”. But this phrase is actually wrong.