I thought you’d like to see an old printing press. One of your fellow subscribers just bought a house and the seller left this for her! Surprise! Katie’s first challenge was to figure out what the heck it was! Now that she has discovered it is a printing press, she’s looking for a buyer :)….

Could we all please agree that we are waiting for the virus vaccine, not waiting on the vaccine? We wait for a train (while waiting “on” the platform). I think I would need to be a gymnast to wait on the train (especially while it’s moving . . . ). We wait for our friends…

While we are on the discussion of upper and lower case letters and upper and lower case . . . wait! Is it numbers or numerals? I confess that I use the word “number” for everything, but after researching, I learned that I should choose the word “numeral” for most of my uses. Last week’s…

Last week, I talked about upper and lower case letters. This week, let’s consider an outline. We use upper case letters in an outline [A, B, C, etc.]. These letters are then generally followed by a period. For more detailed outlines, we add lower case letters [a, b, c, etc.]. I’ve seen these smaller letters…

The use of “upper case” and “lower case” when describing capital letters or “small” letters comes from the early printing days. Each letter was made into a block. The block letters were placed by hand in a row to make words that would be inked and then paper would be placed on top of the…

I just read that the “ick” sound at the end of a word is spelled “ick” when that word has only one syllable, as is sick. When the word has more than one syllable, that same sound is spelled “ic,” as in psychic. Why this language has to be so confusing, I will never know…

Speaking of homonyms, check out this Note on a survey: “Steal Guardrail Overhead.” HAHA! Should I follow these instructions?