Bibliophobia...!

... this : [The s] tock market lets you buy into [a] variety of good businesses... Don’t get be discourage [d] by their somber [som...

It's not often that I turn the red pen towards non-manuscripts, but I felt the need to in this case. Look, Farm Fresh has a new produc...

November 2013 marks my third year as a books editor. Though I had few illusions as to what I'd be facing when I took this job, these thr...

So I was at the recent MPH Warehouse Sale 2013 and this guy was also there to autograph his books and other related merchandise. Boey Che...

A debate on possessives and apostrophes was sparked by a book project, which I assumed was because of aesthetics. Barring some circumstanc...

Sometimes, editors get to read the darnedest things. English : I can save some time. Malay : Saya boleh menyelamatkan masa. "That...

Sometimes, cookbook editing is the pits, especially for multilingual cookbooks. Grammar can be flexible, the writing can be boring and, if t...

first published in The Malaysian Insider , 24 October 2012 Some time ago, some linguistic Paul Revere came riding out of a foggy night, l...