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Teddy Snyder | A few smartphone word games to help expand your vocabulary.

Teddy Snyder | Mixing up your adjectives can raise eyebrows at best or muddle your message at worst.

Teddy Snyder | When you find an emphatic auxiliary, a legal double, or a -self pronoun in your writing, give it the necessity test.

Teddy Snyder | Eloquent speakers understand that in every setting, every minute should be informing, perhaps delighting, your audience.

Get to the Point! | Including a pronoun preference in an email signature is now widely accepted in big business. Good reasons to add your pronoun preference.

Words with the suffix “–nym” pop up regularly. Some are common, but many of the 46 words with this suffix are not. “Nym” derives from the Greek word for “name” or “word.”

Get to the Point! | Getting diacritical marks right in your legal documents can make or break your case.

Get to the Point! | When you want to vary your vocabulary to hold the reader’s interest, the thesaurus is where to turn.

Teddy Snyder | Eloquent speakers understand that in every setting, every minute should be informing, perhaps delighting, your audience.

Get to the Point | Short paragraphs produce more readable documents.