The dictionary is a wonderful thing, but you can't let it push you around.
There is a phase in the life of every copy editor when she is obsessed with hyphens.
Nobody knows everything-one of the pleasures of language is that there is always something new to learn-and everybody makes mistakes.
Commas, like nuns, often travel in pairs.
Why, if there is alphabet soup, do we not have punctuation cereal?
The English language is full of words that are just waiting to be misspelled, and the world is full of sticklers, ready to pounce.