Grammar Guy
Curtis Honeycutt is a syndicated humor columnist and treasurer for the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. He is the author of Good Grammar is the Life of the Party: Tips for a Wildly Successful Life. Find more at curtishoneycutt.com.
Additional Column Posts (1 - 9 of 9)
Space wars
By Curtis Honeycutt - Jun 17How many spaces should go after a period: one or two? To answer that question, we have to talk about typewriters. A long time ago in a galaxy far, ...
When you say nothing at all
By Curtis Honeycutt - Jun 03Wherefore upon we find ourselves on the noble precipice of the dawning of a newly formed sentence and, seeing as how I still have your undivided ...
A lightning round of linguistic limbo
By Curtis Honeycutt - May 20The English language is nutty. It can be understood through tough, thorough thought, though. I wanted to find a way to add the word “trough” to ...
Filling the pauses with … um … you know … embolalia
By Curtis Honeycutt - May 06A few years ago, my friend Kristen and I created a podcast called “The Exotic Fruit Review.” In it, we sampled exotic fruits, discussed them and ...
Don’t forget your shacket
By Curtis Honeycutt - Apr 22It's that time of year: is it spring yet? Or is it summer? Wait, is it going to get cold again? What? There's snow in the forecast this week? ...
Pardon my harsh letters
By Curtis Honeycutt - Jun 10My wife and I are in a stage of parenting where we can't get away with spelling words aloud around the kids anymore. Our son is a great reader and ...
A double take down the garden path
By Curtis Honeycutt - May 27I've been getting into gardening lately. Specifically, I'm cultivating a native perennial garden designed to support monarchs and other crucial ...
A tendentious excoriation of sesquipedalianism
By Curtis Honeycutt - May 13At some point, you learned the word ~ You may not know what it means, but at least you know it. Never mind that it has to do with people who ...
Nonce upon a time
By Curtis Honeycutt - Apr 29Have you ever heard or uttered a sentence and then thought, “I'll bet no one's ever said that before”? For instance, yesterday I was playing with ...
