Tabs on Writing

This is no ordinary post for the grammar/homophone/punctuation/spelling Tabs on Writing blog written by your business communications consultant, The Atlanta Freelance Writer. An ordinance is a law, decree, or regulation usually issued by the power of a municipal governing body to which you must adhere. On the other hand, if you simply delete the letter “i,” you come up with another [...]

A retired Canadian couple recently won $10.8 million in the lottery and decided to give away all but $300,000! The beneficiaries, besides their immediate family, included churches, hospitals, fire departments, cemetaries and the Red Cross. Allen and Violet Large, who worked in Ontario now are living large in Nova Scotia. As a couple they would be known as the [...]

This being Election Day 2010, here, according to Merriam-Webster, are some words, spelling, pronunciations and definitions to add to your voting vocabulary: Plebiscite – A vote by which the people of an entire country or district express an opinion for or against a proposal especially on a choice of government or ruler Gubernatorial – Of, or relating [...]

The sight of Halloween ghosts and goblins is further haunted by some scary words that contain the letter “e”, such as eerie, not to be confused with a city in Pennsylvania, spelled Erie. While it may not be the first preferred pronunciation of a hawk’s or eagle’s nest, an aerie is a homophone to eerie and Erie. The [...]