Village Wordsmith

Points of View

A few years ago, browsing in a used bookstore in a town where I don't live (which, by the way, is a great strategy for finding titles...

Devolution/Evolution: What's Up With U.S. English, Anyway?

One thing that makes the human species so unique is the complexity of our communication. We like to think of language as a fixed,...

Post-Halloween Post

[A note of apology: Ideally this should have been a Halloween-themed post, but the spirit didn't move me until this week.] As the waning...

Don't Fear the Editor

It's not always easy to market your editing skills. As someone who's been doing this for a few years now, I see two main reasons: 1)...

Here Stands the Village Wordsmith

Welcome to The Village Wordsmith blog. I never really thought of myself as a wordsmith until my team members at the George Lucas...

Alan K. Lipton