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Rain Man 1
Feed 'em verbiage
The Economist style guide
Judge Easterbrook on opinion-writing and brief-writing
Twelve ways to improve your writing
Avoid gaps between subjects and verbs
Instantaneous karma
Pleonasm
Clients hate pompous legal writing
Speaking of bad writing ...
28 reasons why English teachers die young
If the standard is manifestly erroneous, why do we still use it?
Today's wordy phrases (7/21/04)
More on misused quotation marks
What's in a name?
"Convince" versus "persuade"
"Going" versus "moving"
Language and marketing
Quotation marks
A danged dangler
"Tortuous" versus "torturous"
"Cite" versus "site"
The ambiguous negative "may"
A conversation at the International Legislative Drafting Institute
Follow-up to "A linguistic oddity?"
Speechless?
Contra non valentem
Today's cliché (6/12/04)
Peremptory
Preemption and peremption
Buy this book
Definitions in discovery requests
Today's oxymoron (5/29/04)
Today's euphemism (5/27/04)
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Wordy captions
The poster child of clichés
Get the lead out
Reference: a noun, not a verb
A tortuous mistake