Reading hasn’t always been the silent, solitary, activity that many of us are probably used to.
The development of the way people have read mirrors the pattern of a child’s learning. In the ancient world, they read out loud and in company. In the Middle Ages, monks in their scriptoria would murmur quietly to themselves as [...]

An exclamation mark is like laughing at your own jokes, said F Scott Fitzgerald, but F Scott Fitzgerald didn’t live in age of 140 character messaging where the exclamation mark makes for a great way to emphasis a point without having to write a novel to do so (sorry, F Scott Fitzgerald).
“Cut out all those [...]

Just what is the best way to hyperlink this sentence, if the words JavaScript and screen readers are to be the anchor text?
Blind accessibility consultant Aaron Cannon and co-worker Aaron Barker have authored “JavaScript and screen readers”.

And if you thought there were at least six options to choose from, then you were correct.
What’s more [...]

This is the endorsement I’ve been waiting for: Punctuation Man has decided to throw his support behind the use of the serial comma, or Oxford comma, which is, of course, also known as the Harvard comma:
There is no small debate about the serial comma (also known as the Oxford Comma). It is a comma used [...]

Typo vigilantes Jeff Deck and Benjamin Herson, whose “work” I mentioned a few months ago, have been convicted of vandalising a noticeboard at a US national park, after noticing it contained a number of grammatical and spelling errors, and then correcting them.
An affidavit by National Park Service agent Christopher A. Smith said investigators learned of [...]

Typo personalities
Apostrophe Man would be delighted with the efforts of Jeff Deck and Benjamin Herson who are men on a mission, a mission to correct poor grammar, wherever they find it.
Picture a pair of Kerouacs armed with Sharpies and erasers and righteous indignation – holding back a flood of mixed metaphors and spelling [...]