Spelling: I before E

Spelling can be #FunnyOnFriday. I found this funny variation on the rhyme “I before E except after C” on Facebook. Enjoy. Screen clipping taken: 6/11/2021 8:49 AM

By the book: Elegant writing can be learned

Ward Farnsworth, in his book Farnsworth’s Classical English Rhetoric, gives us hope for improving our writing by leaps and bounds in this installment of #ByTheBook. He wrote: “Everyone speaks and writes in patterns…they are models we internalize from the speech around...