So here's an interesting one: My family are language fanatics, and thus we rarely have a gathering where linguistic pet peeves don't come up. And inevitably, my mom will mention hers: "The thing that bugs me is when people say 'oh' when they mean 'zero.' 'Oh' is a letter of the alphabet; 'zero'...

I'm wonder if, rather than using "we" or "one," you could use "you" and take it directly to the reader? When you understand the words of triumph, you no longer ask, "Can I succed?" Instead, you ask, "How do I conquer and prevail? What is the key to victor...

Thanks for the feedback and the welcome, everyone! Your answers pretty much sum up what I thought; that I should make it up as I go along. ;) (The rule I wound up adopting, if you're curious, is that any number below 100 should be exact; above 100 and we can use generalities. Hey, it makes as much s...

I find myself in a quandary with a project I'm currently proofreading, and since I've found useful information on this board before, I thought I would dive in and see if y'all can help me directly. What I'm finding is an inconsistency in using approximate vs. exact numbers. For example, I might come...