By Santo (Joe) Aurelio Semicolon. The semicolon (;) is a mark of punctuation that is more frequently misused than used correctly. The semicolon should only…
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Stenographers have a passion for punctuation. An article published in the Sept. 22 JCR Weekly in honor of National Punctuation Day had the most hits…
When it comes to transcripts, it pays to watch for these grammar gremlins. NCRA’s Proofreading Advisory Council made a list of the ghastliest grammar and…
Court reporters and captioners understand the value of continuing education and always improving one’s skills, but it can be challenging to attend in-person events. With…
By Dom Tursi All Things English By Margie Wakeman Wells Margie Holds Court Publishing, 2016 Since I turned the first page of All Things English,…
NCRA’s Education Department has announced a new webinar titled English Grammar Gremlins: Ways to Conquer Them. Many speakers and writers will use the wrong word…
Oxford Dictionaries posted a video in September explaining why adjectives appear in a certain order before a noun. Read more.
By Santo J. Aurelio Punctuation is extremely important. Without it, sentences cannot be understood. The job of a reporter is basically twofold: to capture all…
In honor of National Punctuation Day, which is celebrated every year on Sept. 24, NCRA asked members of the Proofreading Advisory Council for their best…
Inc. recently published an article on 20 idioms that are commonly misspelled even on reputable websites. The article compares the actual spelling with the most…
In an interview on the website Grammarist, Lisa McLendon, also known as Madam Grammar, says: “If you know a little bit about linguistics and grammar,…
On Aug. 27, The Economist blog posted an article about how dictionaries choose which words to include and how this differs between print and online…
OxfordDictionaries.com has announced their new quarterly vocabulary additions. Many of the new words, which include adorbs, binge-watch, hot mess, pharmacovigilance, and subtweet, come from popular…
Margie Wakeman Wells presented her “Punctuation Workshop: You Want Me to Use a Comma There?” on Friday, Aug. 1, at the 2014 NCRA Convention &…
Court reporters are not alone in their concern over punctuation, according to a July 2 article in the New York Times. Danielle Allen, a professor…
Curtis Newbold, a communications professor and self-named “Visual Communication Guy,” has created an infographic ranking the 15 punctuation marks in order of difficulty. On the…
The New York Times style guide dropped the hyphen from “email” and lowercased and closed-up “website,” according to articles in the AtlanticWire and Mashable.com. These…
Margie Wakeman Wells, of Margie Holds Court Publishing, is coming out with a new book in mid-October: Word Pares, Pears, Pairs. This book covers the…