Spelling

About 16,000 words have succumbed to pressures of the Internet age and lost their hyphens in a new edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.Bumble-bee is now bumblebee, ice-cream is ice cream and pot-belly is pot belly. And if you've got a problem, don't be such a crybaby (formerly cry-baby).

A podcast about common writing ills. Not as bitter a pill as you may think and it's actually good for you! A spoonful of linguistic cod liver oil for responsible writing adults.

Here’s one for the writers. Try this quiz to see how much you rely on your spellchecker. Pay attention…some of these everyday words can fool even the sharpest brain. No dictionaries allowed!

Suddenly wondering whether "I" or "me" was the proper word to use, I recalled the excellent Dr Grammar site, and its extensive FAQ - a goldmine for all of us whose obsession with correct language usage borders to fascism. :)

well I could read it :)