Lay, laid and laying. When Bob Dylan sang ‘Lay, lady, lay, upon my big brass bed…’ all the purists shuddered. He shoud have sung ‘lie’ (unless, that is, the lady was a hen about to lay an egg). Nicholas Hudson, Oxford, Modern Australian Usage. [...]
Even though the @ symbol was on keyboards of the day since the late 1800s, it only achieved its extraordinary rise in use in the 1970s when Ray Tomlinson, a computer programmer developing the concept of email, decided to use ‘@’ to separate the name from the address. Fun fact [...]
The dot on the ‘i’ is called a tittle. The letter ‘j’ shares this diacritic dot. Fun fact source. [...]
“Your typesetter [and editor or proofreader] will remove double-spaces from your manuscript; that’s a simple fact. Though writers are encouraged to unlearn the double-space typing habit, they may be heartened to learn that intellectual arguments against the old style are mostly contrived. At worst, the wide space after a period [...]