Please meet Peter Harvey, EFL teacher, author and translator. Please introduce yourself and provide some background information. I am a qualified UK secondary-school teacher specialising in EFL, but I have never taught in the UK. After teaching English in Germany, Zambia and Saudi Arabia I came to live in Barcelona, Spain, in 1984. Now I teach adults on a freelance basis, translate and write books about English. I studied modern languages at Cambridge and I find that having studied … [Read more...]

Grammarist is proud to feature an interview with Stan Carey, the Irishguistarian-er. Please introduce yourself and provide some background information. I’m Stan Carey, a freelance writer and editor from Ireland. I trained as a scientist, thought about becoming a musician, then got hooked on language. I write about it at Sentence first, Macmillan Dictionary Blog, and elsewhere. Most of my work is editing and proofreading reports, books, academic and business texts, advertising copy, and so … [Read more...]

Please meet Gretchen McCulloch, linguist, editor and writer. Please introduce yourself and provide some background information. I’m a linguist and the editor of Slate's language blog, Lexicon Valley. I write linguistics-related articles for a general audience both on Lexicon Valley and elsewhere (The Toast, Grammar Girl), as well as slightly nerdier posts on my own blog, All Things Linguistic. Perhaps most notably, I've written about internet linguistics, including the grammar of doge, the … [Read more...]

The Grammarist is proud to introduce, James Harbeck, author, speaker and taster of words. Please introduce yourself and provide some background information. I’m James Harbeck. I make my living as an editor, writer, and layout designer. I blog as a word taster and sentence sommelier. I have a BFA, MA, and PhD in drama (theory, history, criticism) and am working on an MA in linguistics. I run, I sing, I cook, I ski, I occasionally act, I love to travel, I take pictures. Your blog, … [Read more...]

Please meet Constance Hale, writer, hula dancer and author of the very popular grammar and writing blog, Sin and Syntax. Please introduce yourself and provide some background information. I have written three books on writing: The first is Wired Style, the second is Sin and Syntax, and the third is Vex, Hex, Smash, Smooch. The latter is intended as a romp through the history of language and, in particular, English. It is filled with ideas to play with in your writing. Sin and Syntax is a … [Read more...]

Grammarist is pleased to introduce, Craig Silverman, an award-winning journalist and the founder of Regret the Error, a blog that reports on media errors and corrections, and trends regarding accuracy and verification. The blog moved to The Poynter Institute in December 2011, and he joined as Adjunct Faculty. How did you first start blogging? I was reading a ton of blogs back in the early 2000s and wanted to start one of my own. I was a freelance journalist at the time, and wanted to do … [Read more...]

The Grammarist is proud to feature Mignon Fogarty, best known as Grammar Girl with her Quick and Dirty Tips for better writing- a site that has been described as "your friendly guide to the world of grammar, punctuation, usage, and fun developments in the English language." Mignon is also the author of Behind the Grammar, a podcasting network where she speaks about any number of topics, including business, marketing, podcasting, writing, and life. Please introduce yourself and provide some … [Read more...]