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David Foster Wallace

Rest in peace. Why is it that the brilliant ones are taken so soon. Damnit. I will be reading Infinite Jest again. […]

100 words every high-school graduate should know. I have to admit, there were a couple I didn’t know, and there are words […]

In the original! Learn to speak ancient Greek. NP: “As If I Hadn’t Slept” – Idlewild

I just overheard a grammar question at work! No really. It concerned the correct spacing around an em dash (—). For the […]

The University of Chicago Press will begin offering an online version of the Chicago Manual of Style. I’m sure most of you […]

Catching up with the colloquial rather quickly, Merriam-Webster has decided that google is a verb. NP: “It’s All the Same” – Wilderness

Here’s a nice animation of the evolution of the alphabet. I’ve always had an interest in this, going back to looking at […]