Quiz Guy John Chaneski’s puzzle involves trying to predict how Google’s predictive search feature offers to complete various questions. For example, what are the search engine’s most likely suggestions if you type in the words...
An Upper Michigan listener with a form of dyslexia told us he wrote to Kurt Vonnegut years ago about his frustration with trying to become a published writer. Vonnegut wrote back, assuring that when you care enough about your subject, the right...
Allen from San Diego wonders whether his business title should be strategic advisor or strategic adviser, especially because his spell-checker prefers -er. Both spellings are acceptable, but newer corpus evidence shows advisor with -or has become...
Some office workers say their word processor’s spellchecker always flags the words overnighted and overnighting. Are those words acceptable in a business environment? This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Overnighted”...
Marty in Denver wrote mooses in an email, but spell-check balked, and neither moose nor meese sounded right to him. Standard dictionaries and style guides give the plural as moose. It’s a zero plural, the same in singular and plural, like deer...