Many survivors refuse to talk about what they went through but I've never been ashamed to have been in one of those places. The shame is not mine; the church should be ashamed. They say now they're sorry - what they mean is, sorry they were found out.

Nobody knows everything-one of the pleasures of language is that there is always something new to learn-and everybody makes mistakes.

Many survivors refuse to talk about what they went through but I've never been ashamed to have been in one of those places. The shame is not mine; the church should be ashamed. They say now they're sorry - what they mean is, sorry they were found out.

The dictionary is a wonderful thing, but you can't let it push you around.

Commas, like nuns, often travel in pairs.

Something there is in cyberspace that doesn't love an apostrophe.

The English language is full of words that are just waiting to be misspelled, and the world is full of sticklers, ready to pounce.