Writing Wednesdays – the Vocative Comma

Posted by on Jul 17, 2013

I will admit that I tend to over-comma. I can’t help it. It’s just such a handy little thing. It tells a reader when to stop and take a breath, it separates different thoughts, itemizes lists, and just generally helps give structure and meaning to all the little words floating around within a sentence. Commas […]

Writing Wednesdays – Y’all or Ya’ll

Posted by on Jun 5, 2013

For the love of all that is good in the world, it is “y’all” not “ya’ll”! Y’all is the contraction of “you” and “all”‘ where the apostrophe takes the place of the “ou” in “you” and also replaces the space between the words. Thus, “you all” becomes “y’all”. It makes no sense to put the apostrophe in […]