Polygamy: a tense moment

I’ve just stopped us from libelling an academic whose career we’re publishing a retrospective of. The original read: …with his third wife, Dorothy (he had five by the end)… Having the wrong number of ‘had’s is even worse than having the wrong number of wives: both can get you into legal trouble but the latter [...]

Twenty-Four episode 2: Bin and gone

It didn’t take long after today’s news for ‘Jack Bauer’ to start trending on Twitter. Which gave me the pretext to follow up my first episode about America’s finest special agent grammarian… [Counter-Typo Unit, Los Angeles. Chloe O’Brian is reporting to CTU Director Bill Buchanan] Chloe: Bill, it’s a coded message from Jack out in the [...]