The world can be an amusing, if sometimes infuriating, place for language geeks. If you are one, or want to see what amuses us, this page is for your divertissement.

The Editor's Eye: Typos that change the meaning of sentences in telling, embarrassing, or ironic ways. Collected from the real world.

You Called Your Business What? If your last name is Hopping, perhaps you oughtn't to name your funeral home after yourself.

Speaking Our Language: A column cum book review that explores the tension between looking at language as a linguist and looking at it as a copy editor.

Blog entries on various matters regarding words and punctuation and their uses.

A few language-related links.