Maeve's Tips from 2007

MAEVE'S DAILY WRITING TIPS FROM
2007

December 2007 27: Time Words: Era, Epoch, and Eon 24: Farther, Further: What’s the Difference? 21: Go Ahead, Put that Preposition at the End! 20: Usage That Provokes “Blackboard Moments” 17: January 1 Doesn’t Need an “st” 15: Writing About History 13: Multiple Plurals, Multiple Meanings 12: Gentle and Genteel 07: “Famous” Doesn’t Apply to Murderers or Gangsters 04: Better Use “Redneck” with Care	August 2007 29: Is that “-ness” Really Necessary? 27: Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style 25: “Fictional” and “Fictitious” 22: Words with the Suffixes “-ance” and “-ence” 21: One Size Does Not Fit All 20: French Words for Writers 18: Stationery, Cemetery, and Shepherd 17: Novelist, Read The Bible! 15: Five Spelling Rules for “Silent Final E” 13: The Many Forms of the Verb TO BE 10: Misspelled Numbers, Months, and Days 09: “Could Care Less” versus “Couldn’t Care Less” 08: Needed: New Singular Possessive Adjective Combining “his” and “her” 06: The Truth About “It’s” 04: O Second Person Singular, Where Art Thou? 02: Be Sure to Check Your Sources
November 2007 29: Doublets: An Endless Source of Fascination 28: Chant and Cant 23: “Black Friday”: An Unfortunate Expression 21: It’s Not “The Ox-Bow Incidence” 15: Jane Austen Did Not Write Epics 10: Are You Sure You Mean “Moot”? 05: Among/Amongst: Is there a Difference? 03: Gods and Ducks - Get It Right	July 2007 31: Lying in State: Changing Perceptions Change Language 29: Less is More When it Comes to “Unique” 28: Who Is My Neighbor? 26: Orwell: Timeless Guidelines for Writers 24: Folks versus People 24: English Spelling is Not Total Chaos 19: “Putting on Airs” or Expressing One’s Thoughts? 17: Breaking the Lockjam and Buttoning Down the Hatches 16: Less/Fewer; Number/Amount: Still Salvageable 14: Where and Whence 12: Dealing with “he said” and “she said” 11: Five Frequently Misused Verbs: Go, Come, Write, Give, and Eat 10: Loose or Lose? 09: Lay/Lie: Moribund, but Not Dead Yet 05: Idiomatic English 04: Mind Your -ed’s 02: Prepositions for the Perplexed 01: When to use “on” and when to use “in”
October 2007 30: Different from, Different to, Different than 27: Is it Libel, or is it Slander? 25: Between and Among 23: “Disinterested” Not the Same as “Uninterested” 18: Don’t Be Vexed by Vexillology 17: Percentage and Percentile 15: “Pushing Up Daisies” and Other Euphemisms for Death 11: A “Diploma” is not a “Degree” 09: TV’s War on “Me” and “I” 08: Glimpse and Glance: Same or Different? 04: Spelling Reform and the Writer 02: People versus Persons 01: Case of the Missing “i”s: foliage, verbiage, miniature	June 2007 29: Consistent Style Sheet Eliminates Value Judgments 26: Me, Myself, and I 25: Careful with Words Used as Noun and Verb 22: The Possessive Apostrophe 21: Whatever Happened to “Arrested”? 21: Beware the shifting tense 19: All Pronoun Cases Are Created Equal 18: The Gentleman Fled on Foot 13: Advertising May Be Harmful to Your Spelling 12: Clauses that need companionship 07: I Hate “Kids” 03: Beware of “Whom”
September 2007 28: No More Used Cars 20: CAUTION: Merging Words 19: Battle of the Dictionaries 18: The Six Spellings of “Long E” 17: “Forte” or “Fortë,” “Cache” or “Cachet”? 14: In Quest of a Standard American Pronunciation 12: Writing and Selling Your Mystery Novel 11: Learn to Spell by Phonograms, not Letters 10: Seen in the Classifieds 06: Caesar Sat on the Dais 03: Comparative Forms of Adjectives 01: Quiet or Quite?	May 2007 Launch month for Daily Writing Tips 30: Let the Word Do the Work