Merrill Perlman managed copy desks across the newsroom at the New York Times, where she worked for twenty-five years. Follow her on Twitter at @meperl.
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An altogether random list to use every day
Literally speaking
When to use ‘who’ and ‘that’
Adjectives may agitate
It’s not a coincidence
‘What … did (he) say?’
Confusion over "infamy" and "notoriety" abounds
When dialects collide
Can something be ‘fraught’ without ‘with’?
Descriptions that deserve respect, or not
