They can be tricky!

They can be tricky!

Abbreviations (those are the shortened forms of words) can be difficult to understand. Only use them if you know that your readers will understand them. You might even like to spell them out the first time you use them in an email or letter if you really want to use...
Just to be sure

Just to be sure

The factory foreman inspected a shipment of crystal vases leaving the plant, and approached his new packer. He put his arm around the man’s shoulder and said, “Well, Ole, I see you did what I asked. You stamped the top of each box, ‘This Side Up, Handle With Care.’”...
Was your day successful?

Was your day successful?

You’ll find lots of ideas on how to improve your time management skills in Harold Taylor’s checklist. I’m working on number 21 at the moment: “Don’t keep shuffling papers; handle each item only once whenever possible. Do it, scrap it, file it,...
F for fitness

F for fitness

You want to tell a colleague or business partner that you go to a ‘Fitnessstudio’. We’d most probably say that we’re a member of the ‘gym’ or the ‘health club’.
Look what I’ve done!

Look what I’ve done!

I could have written, “Look what I have done” in today’s heading, but I chose to add a contraction. In this example sentence, I formed one word (I’ve) by joining two together (I have) and dropping some letters and adding an apostrophe. Why did...