Regular columns

Michael Lewis contributes regular (and not-so-regular) columns to the newsletters of the ASTC (NSW) and the Society of Editors (NSW). The regular columns are entitled "What Word is that?"; the not-so-regular columns are entitled "The Doctor is in". Because the two publications have different readerships, there is rarely any significant duplication; where there is near-duplication, only one article is included here. Just follow the links.

What Word is that?

• Apostrophes in possessive pronouns
• Consolidating compounds
• Lay or lie?
• Metaphors
• Practice or practise?
• Quantum leaps
• What does "free" mean?
• What does "technical" mean?
• What word is "that"?

The Doctor is in

• Can not or cannot?
• Parallelism
• Position of modifiers

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