I was surprised to learn that of the more than 6,000 Heidelblog posts, two of the most popular have been Grammar Guerrilla posts: Grammar Guerrilla: Comfort v Comfortability and Grammar Guerrilla: Agreement v Agreeance.1 From this surprising fact I infer that there is some interest among HB readers in grammar and writing. Good news: there is a library of HB posts on grammar and they are collected now on the updated Grammar Guerrilla page, which also offers a bibliography for the reader who seeks to become a better writer.
Resources
- How To Subscribe To Heidelmedia
- How To Make the Coffer Clink: Use the Donate Button Below This Post
- Heidelblog Resources
- The HB Media Archive
- Grammar Guerrilla: Resources For Aspiring Writers
NOTE
1. There are two accepted spellings, guerilla and guerrilla.
R. Scott Clark
R.Scott Clark is the President of the Heidelberg Reformation Association, the author and editor of, and contributor to several books and the author of many articles. He has taught church history and historical theology since 1997 at Westminster Seminary California. He has also taught at Wheaton College, Reformed Theological Seminary, and Concordia University. He has hosted the Heidelblog since 2007.
More by R. Scott Clark ›
That’s great! I’ll sure be using it. I still get confused now and then when it’s appropriate to use “who” vs. “whom”. If you want to create a post for those, I’d appreciate it.
Here you go:
https://heidelblog.net/2013/08/grammar-guerilla-him-her-whom-he-she-and-who/
I have my own bugaboo from a career in the military—“use” versus “utilize.” Military and government writers are prone to the embellishment of reports. The pinnacle is reached in performance reports that are intended to increase the probability of someone’s promotion to a higher rank. I suspect that the writers are attempting to sound more technical or sophisticated, e.g., “Captain Smith utilized squadron resources to achieve a 50% increase in efficiency.”
That’s a good one.