I hope you’re here because you’re passionate about speech, grammar, style, syntax, morphology, linguistics, or some unholy combination of any or all of those. Or maybe you’re just here because you don’t know a lot about those things—but you know that you should. Perhaps you dropped by because you aren’t sure about whether the comma goes inside or outside the quotation marks, or how to use the pluperfect subjuctive, or how to punctuate non-restrictive appositives.

Or maybe you’re just a skinhead, and Google plopped you down here because of the name of my site. If that’s the case, I apologize—but you’re going to be sorely disappointed. We don’t go in for any of your fascist, narrow-minded approaches around here. (Well, actually, we do, but only where matters of grammar and style are concerned.)

Got a question? Send me an email and I’ll post the right answer for you and everyone else to see. (And yes, it will be right. That’s what we do here—we only traffic in correctness.) A final word of caution: While sincere seekers of wisdom and truth will never be mocked or derided, the pretentious and argumentative among you will be filleted forthwith by a screed of Mussolinian proportion, culminating in the one phrase of banishment one should hope never to hear from The Word Nazi: “No words for you! Come back one year!”

So that’s basically the raison d’être of this site: I’m just making the world a little smarter place, one word at a time.