by Pernickety Kate | Apr 19, 2022 | Proofreading, Spelling, Words
Continuing my series demystifying commonly confused words… Imply / Infer Imagine a house. Probably semi-detached suburban; definitely well-kept. It has a garage and a drive. Across the front end of the drive, at knee height, is a chain (it may well have spiky... 
by Pernickety Kate | Apr 9, 2022 | Proofreading, Spelling
Typos, eh? They’re sneaky, and they happen to the best of us. But we can’t blame our keyboards for everything… Technically, a typo is a mistake occurring through misuse (or failure) of the machinery used for typing. It is short for typographical error – the kind of... 