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Originally Posted by HarryT
I would personally be wary of taking grammatical advice from a site which is apparently incapable of spelling the word "grammar".
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Although, Harry, exceedingly sound advice -- and, BTW, the same advice I often give my colleagues -- I have learned in recent years to not waste my breath. Too many "professional" editors and too many non-editors who believe they are as good an editor as a person who has worked as an editor for decades live by the one sacrosanct creed: If it's free, it's got to be an impeccable source.
I once had a "medical editor" tell me that she did not need to own a copy of any of the leading American medical dictionaries because she could tell when a word was correctly spelled just by looking at it; after all, she had been a medical transcriptionist for x years before becoming an editor. She then went on to list the online sites that she checked should she need confirmation. I forget now exactly how many sites she used, but it was just a very few -- and each was riddled with errors. Their saving grace, however, was that they were free.
And so it goes with grammer (or is it grammar?), too.