Once acquired, text needs to be structured and formatted. This guides you through different formats and editing options.
Category Archive: Language
The word ‘perk’ has three quite separate meanings and origins, and is a microcosm of English etymology.
This second article considers how text is entered into your Mac: mainly by the keyboard, but also briefly covers speech and scanned input.
If you were looking for a ‘good’ night out with a ‘bad’ man or woman, would you prefer someone who was amoral, immoral, or non-moral? Here comes a strange trip into English morphology…
In the first of a series, this explains how Macs work with Unicode, how to get the best out of that, and how to fix its problems.
Sometimes someone comes along and pulls the rug from under your most deeply-held ideas. This time it is […]
Given the facts about modern English, prescriptivism will not only fail under the far greater force of change, but prescriptivism will steadily die out.
Following an essay by Oliver Kamm (whose latest book is reviewed here) in the Wall Street Journal attacking […]
Some well-phrased English sentences which are more than a match for any duck/rabbit.
A survey of the major reference grammars of English available in print or to download.
The Eclectic Light Company 