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Who is this self-styled expert?No Ph.D. in English, I admit, but I was reading "chapter books" at age 3, helping the teacher with spelling tests by grade 7, and working as a paid proofreader by age 16. My SAT verbal score was 800 out of 800. Pure left-brain? Yep. I have a degree in mathematics, and I hire right-brain people to help me with graphics. I manipulate words in all my work -- from Web sites to articles for corporate publications. Even in my spare time, I read a lot. As you can see from the Fun Page, some of that is recreational reading. Bonus for those who have read this far: Look for the works of Terry Pratchett in the Science Fiction or Fantasy section, and for those of Donald Westlake and William Goldman in the fiction section. They are writers who obviously enjoy their work. I have(and use!) a good collection of reference works on language, including two gems: the two-volume Oxford dictionary and Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. My typing method is, um, proprietary -- and you may find the occasional typographical error even here. Tell me, by all means, but don't bother gloating. There will probably be a typo in the E-mail you send to tell me about my typo. MORE FUN: |