language – Right Angels and Polo Bears

Does an acronym have to spell a word?

TL;DR no. But technically, an acronymn is made up of the initials that make up a term and turns out

Got acronyms? Here’s how to style them in your work, plus when to explain them and how.

This time, we’re going to look at customizing the dictionaries used by spellcheck. In the previous posts, you learned about running

Customizing the dictionaries used by spellcheck helps editors get the most out of this automated support. Previous posts in this

You know Spellcheck, and in the previous post, you learned about language preferences and how to control them.Today, in my How

We take Spellcheck for granted, so maybe we don’t know all it can do for us. Today, in my How To column

There are two places you need to set the language preference in MS Word: in Styles, and for each paragraph.

Picks from the interwebs this week for my word- and tech-nerd peeps: cat V editor, and some fur-less purring to

During the seasonal onslaught of retrospectives, Ben Zimmer predicted new words that 2015 will bring, and pondered why some never

I had a really long waiting room stay this week, so I caught up on a reading backlog. Lucky you: