Word ‘puzzlers’

[ Quick Win posts – QWs – are brief items to help non-overwhelm your day. Enjoy! ]   If you've followed along with the Quick Wins from the beginning, this is where it starts paying off! In [QW1], we discussed a team is a collection of people making up: A group An...

[ Quick Win posts – QWs – are brief items to help non-overwhelm your day. Enjoy! ]   Here is a problematic word puzzler where one outlier does not follow the rule. [QW5] "It's" vs. "Its" We often find an apostrophe demonstrating ownership: The dog's bone A...

[ Quick Win posts – QWs – are brief items to help non-overwhelm your day. Enjoy! ]   Okay, pet peeve time. We in the U.S. are ramping up to an election in early November. And I guarantee: we will hear and see the word 'democratic' misused 99% of the time between...

[ Quick Win posts – QWs – are brief items to help non-overwhelm your day. Enjoy! ]   One of the most difficult things to get right in sentences is 'I' and 'me.' [QW3] Don't confuse 'I' and 'me' Let me show you two correct examples, and then explain the method I...

[ Quick Win posts – QWs – are brief items to help non-overwhelm your day. Enjoy! ]   Welcome back to Quick Wins for those pesky 'word puzzlers' in our lives. This month's offering is one of my biggies: [QW2] Never (!) refer to people as 'that' If you've ever...

[ Quick Win posts – QWs – are brief items to help non-overwhelm your day. Enjoy! ]     Hey! What's all this 'QW' stuff in the headline?! Well-l-l, I recently looked back through some project management notes, where I discovered a pattern of easy-to-fix tech...