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Pedantique-Ryter: English Daftisms
Occasional Writing Tips from Dame Isadora Pedantique-Ryter : #2 English Daftisms: Do I practise in my practice? Of course, as I type this, the spell-checker — in American English — is giving me a loud...
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Pedantique-Ryter: who or whom?
Last time, I gave you four whom examples from the sainted Georgette Heyer. I said the number of mistakes was somewhere between zero and four. And the answer? ONE. But which one? And why? Read on to...
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Apostrophe Rules!
This is the tale of how an apostrophe changed my life. It made me open my mind, in spite of deeply entrenched prejudices, and endowed me with hours of reading pleasure I would never have expected in a...
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Pedantique-Ryter: may or might?
May or might? Many writers (and journalists who should definitely know better) have been flummoxed by that one. It seems, increasingly, that may is used all the time, even when it’s actually wrong. Try...
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Pedantique-Ryter: Exclamation Marks Shriek
Do you use exclamation marks? Often? Maybe too often??!!! Some readers HATE exclamation marks Exclamation marks used to be all the rage. Once. But tastes change and, nowadays, some readers count...
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Collaborator and Writer, First Steps in Doing it Together
Collaborator… By temperament, I’m one of nature’s collaborators. Show me a team and I’m spitting on my hands and doing my bit. With enthusiasm. In my various day jobs, I’ve loved the sense of shared...
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Pedantique-Ryter : Between You and I? Better than me?
Between you and I? It’s a secret. Just between you and…er… According to Fowler’s Modern English Usage, “between you and I” is to be condemned. Anyone who writes that abomination is living in “a...
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Pedantique-Ryter: Could Have or Could Of?
We could of had it all If you do a web search for “could of“, you’ll find quite a few people searching for song lyrics. Examples of search terms include: “It could of been the champagne” and “It could...
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Incoherent English : a Pedantique-Ryter Rant
Incoherent English? Yes, another bee in the Pedantique-Ryter bonnet. Radio 4 Today programme in the dock for incoherent speech In a short interval between my summer educational tours, I happened to be...
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