Grammar Matters: Everyone Needs There Own Farecard

Lucky for this station manager, a signature wasn’t required.  No such luck for us at work with emails, letters, and other documents.  Grammar does matter.  People do make judgment calls based on our written word. 

Workplace Gaffes aka Did I Pronounce That Correctly?

How apropos! I may have already been guilty this week.
I just downloaded a new Dictionary.com Blackberry App (it’s free by the way, and no I’m not getting paid for this, though I would like a shiny new Blackberry for Christmas).
Anyway, the app has some great features including a searchable dictionary, thesaurus, words of the day [...]

The Difference Between Miss, Mrs., and Ms.

Every time I fill out an application or form, more often than not I am given the choice of Miss, Mrs., or Ms.  And until Prince Charming arrives my only choices (and confusion) have been Miss or Ms.  Perhaps smarter people than I are aware of the differences.  But until I read the recent On [...]

Eminent and Imminent

While writing a memo the other day I had a brain freeze on the differences in meaning of eminent and imminent.  Fortunately for me there’s Google and I avoided using the wrong, but similar-sounding, word.
But it does serve as a useful reminder for all as eminent and imminent are among the list of commonly misused [...]