By Mary Jaksch

As writers we need to write correctly, right? It’s embarrassing if you publish stuff with mistakes. Yes, all of us writers need to guard against extravagating. So, let’s see if you know how to use some important words correctly.

But before I do that, let me tell you a story:

I was recently enduring a kilfud-yoking with a fellow-writer.  His pawky humor was enough to make me keck. In fact, after a while I felt like levigating him!

With me so far?

No?

Well … the words I’m introducing you to are unusual. OK, so using them correctly isn’t maybe that important. And that’s the point here. So often, we are obsessed with ‘getting things right’. Many writers never publish anything because this... More...