Need and Want
I spent a long time confusing two words that look like cousins and behave like strangers. Need and want.
The Cost of a Comma
Lynne Truss sold a small fortune of books on one comma. Eats, shoots and leaves is a man with a gun.
The Sanitation Problem
Most organisations are managed. A few are actually run. The difference is almost never talent.
The line I couldn’t Use
I collect sentences the way a magpie collects buttons, with no regard for whose coat they fell off.