The Grammar Diva Blog - Bites of Grammar and Such

Things have gotten pretty serious over the past week. I thought you might appreciate a little humor.

Read about the differences in spelling, punctuation, and grammar between American and British English in Part 2 of this series.

It’s all the same language, but it’s different – American versus British English. And the British did have it first.

Thank you to everyone who wrote me to tell me about their favorite books and the first books they remember reading. Here is what you said:

When I copyedit, I see all kinds of lines and spaces that are supposed to be dashes. This post is about the difference between hyphens and dashes (both en dashes and em dashes).