Plenty of word pairs confuse writers. This video clears up a few of the common issues: Farther and Further Stationery and Stationary Every day and Everyday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXPR7vHbcoY   Far

  “A man with a scant vocabulary will almost certainly be a weak thinker. The richer one’s vocabulary and the greater one’s awareness of subtle nuances of meaning, the more fertile and precise is likely to be one’s thinking. If you do not know the words, you can hardly know the thing.” ~ Henry Hazlitt, […]

Remember This: Mnemonics Work From the Greek mnemonikos for “mindful” or “of memory,”  a mnemonic (“neh-MON-ik”) is a memory clue that works because it creates a link between a thing you’re already familiar with and the thing you want to remember.  Like a good metaphor, a mnemonic can tie an abstract idea to a concrete […]