Opinion (language) Adjectives must follow prescribed order Ambiguity: A sentence that can be taken two ways Ambiguity: Bass Ambiguity: Headline kills more Ambiguity: Puzzle-protest story Ambiguity: Triple sign in Cleveland Ambiguity: Your money is no good here Anachronisms: Dialing, choo-choos, sets Announcers' copy should be punctuated, with upper & lower case Antecedents are important on radio; don't keep repeating a pronoun Apostrophe decoding fails “Are you okay?” appears in every script Arial  rn  looks like  m Bitter herbs and wedding soup Branding and corporate passwords Changing cliches Closed captioning has an English-only policy? Computer keyboards need a Shift Lock Crossword constructor crosses his I's Crossword puzzle solutions yield clever rhymes Dos Equis does not mean Two Horses E requires four strokes of my pen; I'm exhausted Enroughty's family name EVOO probably is safe to consume Explanations vs excuses “First annual” vs the grammar police French's mustard has nothing to do with faithless France Greek "-cles" names such as Bicycles and Icicles French is wordy Hilary or Hillary? Hyperbole that's hated:  I'm starving, it's freezing in here, etc. Illeism is when Caesar says "Caesar will not be moved" Initials define names in my mind Insults in Germany included Ignatz and Nahtzy Introducing oneself as a food item produces puzzlement Jane Austen vs Jane Eyre: which is which? "J.J. Doe" = John Lee Doe, Junior Languages I've used in titles on my home page Last names for pets Last names for women are sometimes maintained after marriage Line's engaged Longest word in the dictionary Luxembourg woman's pronouns are "it" and "it" Mare-jot Row-bee, the actress Meaning of "passive-aggressive" Meaning of "Toledo blade" Names that parents invent for their kids, especially weird in Utah Neil Armstrong's "one small step fruh man" Other words we use for "get" "Over" his head was a pillow Past tense of "sneak" is what? Phonetic alphabet Ay Boh Cee Doo might be easier for kids Pinking shears Preferred pronouns ("they" for one person) are confusing Pronouncable corporate names Pronouncable corporate names, part two Pronouncing "Benedum" Pun from Greenland, 986 A.D. "Question" intonation at the end of every spoken sentence? Quick brown fox is slower than Quartz black sphinx Quote the speaker only after identifying him Ralph Fiennes, real quick! Receptacle sticker offers a free car Reindeer names, chosen but forgotten Russian can be deciphered sometimes S on the end of some words is almost always required "Set:" a word with manifold meanings "Shortlived:" is that a short i or a long i? Shruggie emoji finally makes sense "Snow" and "ship" can be represented by many different nouns Sign language misconstrued Sixfolddoubleletters Six-packs?  Two-packs?  Cases?  I'm confused "Smucker's" has to be good Sneezing used to be "fnesing" Spell-check dictionary: be careful about adding to it Spinning class Splitting a sentence confuses the reader Stressing words when reading aloud Telling time:  is it "ten-oh-four p.m." or merely "ten-four"? "That" can't always be omitted They (comedian Sarah Mowrey) prefers to be called "them" "TR" is now pronounced "SH"?? Tucson or Tuscon? "Twelve plus one" equals "eleven plus two" Vacuum contains three syllables Virgin olive oil?  Extra virgin?  What does that mean? Wendsd'y and other vocal transpositions West, Texas, is in east Texas.  North East, PA, is in northwest PA. Whoo's there?  Whoo's there?  If not understood, use different words  Why see a law firm?  YCL Law Firm Wind:  should it always be pronounced "wined"? Word wordwelds welds, and other obvious outcomes "You are not wrong" is the new way to say "This is true" Yukon Huskies, Don Francisco:  their real names