In both cases, around should be about, which means concerning or with regard to. I don’t know when or why it happened, but people have started using around to...(Read More)
One of the things I edit most are sentences that include lists of points. We cram in too many. Take, for example, this sentence from a fact sheet about a company’s expertise in data analytics for the commercial real estate industry:
Our engagements range from predicting tenant turnover, to demand...(Read More)
In this edition of Say It Better Say It Right, an executive of a major pharmacy chain describes the phenomenon of having treatment centers in drugstores.
(Read More)This installment of Say It Better, Say It Right comes from Jeff Bezos’s recent blog post on Medium, “No thank you, Mr. Pecker.”
(Read More)This installment of Say It Better Say It Right comes from a food company executive who made the statement as part of a public debate about the use of the term healthy on food labels.
(Read More)This edition of Say It Better Say It Right comes from a news article about the benefits of featuring real patients, not actors, in pharmaceutical ads.
(Read More)Today’s edition of Say It Better Say It Right comes from a pharmaceutical executive describing conversations with payers and plans about what patients will pay for a new lung cancer treatment.
(Read More)This installment of Say It Better Say It Right comes from a corporate press release that announced a new CFO and included highlights of her track record.
(Read More)Last March, I wrote about three truck drivers in Maine who sued Oakhurst Dairy for more than four years of overtime pay. The lawsuit hinged on the absence of a serial comma. The serial comma is the one that goes before the conjunctions and or or in a list...(Read More)
