Donna Lowe
@loweeda
@loweeda
“Everybody who speaks English decides together what’s a word and what’s not a word. Every language is just a group of people who are trying to understand each other...
two pretty straightforward examples: The duo is recording an album (they’re recording it as a unit), but The duo are going their separate ways (both members, as individual people, are planning to embark on different journeys;
If the word ends in a consonant, add ing or ed, with no hyphen (e.g., computering, computered
Seventeen years later, father of the emoji Shigetaka Kurita would create the first one—a heart—for Japanese telemarketing company NTT Docomo,
Anne Lamott, commencement address
fandoms derived from a proper name should also be capitalized:
•Between adjectives whose order can be swapped (“He was a kind, generous man”).
one important function of the comma is its use in what’s called the vocative case, or when someone (or something—sometimes life gets lonely) is being addressed directly.
Generally, -sized is used to comparatively describe the size of something (e.g., a nickel-sized spider would describe a spider roughly the size of a nickel) and -size to indicate something’s function or utility (e.g., child-size furniture describes furniture meant for the use of children,