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❓ Do you use the word ‘commonplace’ or one of its synonyms often? From time to time, I’m sure. You sometimes need to say that things are usual or ordinary. But my gut feeling is that you use the phrase ‘every day’ more regularly. ✅ I brush my teeth every day. ✅ I check myContinue reading “Is it everyday or every day?”

💡 Microsoft Word does not recognise ‘welk’ as a typo. 🔎 But I spotted it. 🐌 The author meant ‘whelk’ as in the seafood, sea snail thing. ❌ “Tall ships rocked on their moorings as a woman selling cockles and welks wended between sailors.” ✅ “Tall ships rocked on their moorings as a woman sellingContinue reading “Is welk a word? It’s an archaic one. But, if you’re after the sea snail, that’s whelk.”

🎃 Happy Halloween. Or should that be Happy Hallowe’en? 🎃 happy halloween? Or happy hallowe’en? Or some other rendering? It looks to me like the apostrophe is becoming rarer. 🔎 ‘The Chicago Manual of Style’ goes with Halloween. (CMOS 8.89) 🔎 ‘New Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors’ accepts either Hallowe’en or Halloween. 🔎 ‘Collins DictionaryContinue reading “Is it Hallowe’en or Halloween?”