Reading
Wes Lydon
The Garden Path Sentence

Sometimes a sentence leads you to a dead end. You are confused, and that's ok. This time you can blame the sentence.

The Garden Path Sentence
What Lydon is Thinking
Wes Lydon
Semicolon (or, The Period with a Goatee)

I've had a few students ask me about semicolons in the past week. I am sure they are not alone in wondering how to use them, and why we use them the way we do.

Semicolon (or, The Period with a Goatee)
What Lydon is Thinking
Wes Lydon
Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo, You Know?

Students are talking about Buffalo. Word is they buffalo Buffalo buffalo, which is weird for Buffalo buffalo to do, when you consider that Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo, You Know?
Quite Excellent
Wes Lydon
New Quite Excellent - "Small Kindnesses"
New Quite Excellent - "Small Kindnesses"
What Lydon is Thinking
Wes Lydon
The Day My Beard Died

My Beard Died. This is his story.

The Day My Beard Died