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Make Your Editor Cry:  All for Not or All for Knot vs. All for Naught
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Make Your Editor Cry: All for Not or All for Knot vs. All for Naught

  • By: Gregg Bridgeman

I am a man of a particular age. Seasoned, let’s say. I remember the eldest son of the great World Boxing Heavyweight Champion Maximilian Adelbert ….

Make Your Editor Cry:  As Far As I’m concerned
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Make Your Editor Cry: As Far As I’m concerned

  • By: Gregg Bridgeman

As far as this phrase is concerned, I’ll start off by saying I’m concerned. The phrase “as far as” can act as either a preposition ….

Make Your Editor Cry:  All be it vs. Albeit
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Make Your Editor Cry: All be it vs. Albeit

  • By: Gregg Bridgeman

Albeit is a single word meaning “although” or “even though”. It should not be broken up into three separate words as all be it just ….

Make Your Editor Cry:  “All” and where to stick it
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Make Your Editor Cry: “All” and where to stick it

  • By: Gregg Bridgeman

In negative statements, place the word all where it belongs. Physically stick it as closely as possible to the subject it actually modifies. Suppose you ….

Make Your Editor Cry:  All and all vs. All in all
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Make Your Editor Cry: All and all vs. All in all

  • By: Gregg Bridgeman

“All in all” is a traditional emphatically redundant idiom which can mean “all things considered,” or “after all,” or “nevertheless.” People unfamiliar with the traditional ….

Facebook Fear and Wailing
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Facebook Fear and Wailing

  • By: Hallee Bridgeman

Last week, Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced some changes in the way the social media platform will operate in 2021. This caused a giant stir ….

Make Your Editor Cry:  Aircraft (Awkward Plural)
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Make Your Editor Cry: Aircraft (Awkward Plural)

  • By: Gregg Bridgeman

BLUF: (Bottom Line Up Front) The singular and plural of aircraft is aircraft. aircraft: a vehicle (such as an airplane or balloon) for traveling through ….

Make Your Editor Cry:  -ally vs. -ly in Biblical
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Make Your Editor Cry: -ally vs. -ly in Biblical

  • By: Gregg Bridgeman

While all adverbs in “-ly”, there are “-ly” adverbs and “-ally” adverbs. Basically (see what I did there?) you just have to memorize which is ….

Make Your Editor Cry:  Aggravate vs. Irritate
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Make Your Editor Cry: Aggravate vs. Irritate

  • By: Gregg Bridgeman

Despite four hundred years of English speakers using aggravate to mean annoy or irritate, there is a shade of difference. If you make something worse, ….

Make Your Editor Cry:  A Bit of Good Advice
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Make Your Editor Cry: A Bit of Good Advice

  • By: Gregg Bridgeman

A lot of so-called experts offer writers a lot of questionable advice. I remember not too long ago, the prominent advice at writers conferences was ….

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