by lesley | Oct 6, 2014 | Reputation
I’ve just read a book that was quite good, but the author used the word ‘discreetly’ from time to time – except that most of the time it was spelled ‘discretely’, which means something completely different*. A couple of times it...
by lesley | Aug 12, 2013 | Writing Skills
I have a number of writing friends – other copywriters, advertising copywriters, book editors, journalists – and, when we get together, the conversation almost always visits the incorrect use of some word or another. Maybe we are pedantic, perhaps boring...