Recently, someone ended up on my website searching for the phrase “is wife capitalized”. Although that’s not a frequent search phrase used by my website visitors, I thought it would make a good topic for this week’s blog post. So, is wife capitalized? Well, in short, no. There are actually (pretty much) only 3 times to capitalize a word: Proper nouns (like… Continue reading Is “wife” capitalized?
Author: Kim Siever
I am a copywriter and copyeditor. I blog on writing and social media tips mostly, but I sometimes throw in my thoughts about running a small business.
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What do you call a two-year relationship?
Someone recently came to my blog with the following query: one year relation call anniversary, what do call two years relationship? The search result brought them to my blog post on what to call monthly anniversaries, but I thought I’d take a moment to directly answer the question. As the reader correctly pointed out, one uses… Continue reading What do you call a two-year relationship?
5 alternatives you can use instead of “look at”
This week, I’ve been editing a thesis for a master’s student. One thing I noticed during my editing was that this student seemed to have a preference for the phrase “look at”. I’ve talked before about replacing prepositional phrases with single words. This post is specific about alternatives you can use for “look at”. The handy… Continue reading 5 alternatives you can use instead of “look at”
Difference between famous and infamous
This is part of the difference between series. Recently, I saw someone use infamous when they meant famous. Here’s the difference between the two.
Get rid of expletives in your writing
And by expletives, I don’t mean swear words. Expletives are words and phrases that contribute nothing meaningful to a sentence. As you know, I’ve talked at length about cutting down on wordiness. Expletives are one way—possibly the most prolific way—that we’re wordy in our writing. For example, I’ve talked about this in the past with… Continue reading Get rid of expletives in your writing
How to stop getting notifications from Facebook group messages
Have you ever been added to a group message on Facebook then been inundated with multiple notifications of people leaving the group?
How to surprise your subscribers with email newsletter templates
This is a guest post submitted by Mailify, an email marketing firm located in Barcelona, Spain. Email marketing has many advantages that we’ve all heard of; it allows us to save time and money while communicating with our customers and engaging them, it has great conversion rates when turning subscribers into actual clients and its ROI… Continue reading How to surprise your subscribers with email newsletter templates
3 downsides of not targeting your Twitter followers
Not too long ago, I started managing the Twitter account for a local company. I was recently going through their follower list, and I noticed something was off. What I discovered was that those who had been previously managing the account thought that one way to get lots of followers was to follow people with… Continue reading 3 downsides of not targeting your Twitter followers
How to indicate sarcasm online
One of the downsides to writing online is the difficulty in conveying nuance. It can be challenging to interpret tone from plain text, which complicates communicating things like sarcasm. However, true to internet fashion, people have created workarounds.
The opposite of vegetarian
[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”3.0.47″][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”3.0.47″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.9″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”] I’m a functional vegetarian, and I was wondering recently if there’s a word that means the opposite of vegetarian. I decided to go on a bit of an exploration, and here’s what I found.