Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style

by Benjamin Dreyer

Only godless savages eschew the series comma.

(Staring at words is always a bad idea. Stare at the word “the” for more than ten seconds and reality begins to recede.)

Neither will we discuss the interrobang, because we’re all civilized adults here.

WTF?!

The important thing to remember about peeves and crotchets is that your own peeves and crotchets reflect sensible preferences based on a refined appreciation of the music and meaning of the English language, and that everyone else’s are the products of diseased minds.

As to people who object to supermarket express-lane signs reading “10 ITEMS OR LESS”? On the one hand, I hear you. On the other hand, get a hobby. Maybe flower arranging, or decoupage.