by Jessie Seigel, AIW Board Member If I had ten lives, one of them would be lived as a linguist. Language, phonetics, and the structure of the ways in which people speak their own languages and of how they carry that into English fascinate me. Modern Irish (what the Irish call Irish and others sometimes [...]
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Active Voice: A Great Way to Keep Writing Crisp
a “Verbal Knightcap” by Robert M. Knight, AIW Board Member The use of active voice might be the least understood element in English that most people think they understand. They understand even less when they get the use of active voice confused with the use of action verbs. And many do. Many editors can’t keep [...]
Get Your Message Out: Use 21st-Century Communications with 15th century Venues
by AIW President Claude Berube Pubs. They took their name from Public Houses. When I lived in rural England, it seemed that every few miles there was a village of fifty homes, an Anglican church that dated from the 1200s and a pub that seemed just as old. There the regulars and even a few [...]
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