Janice Heck

“Is that a dangler in your memo or are you just glad to see me?”
― June Casagrande, Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies: A Guide to Language for Fun and Spite

“Rumor had it that Professor Jerkwad had a history of holding classes in bars and using the school's senior class as harvesting grounds for a long string of wives who never seemed to stay married to him past age twenty-eight. Rumor also had it that a few years later he was canned from his job mid some rather unpleasant allegations, but we journalists can't succumb to rumor and conjecture when nonspecific innuendo is so much more titillating.”
― June Casagrande, Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies: A Guide to Language for Fun and Spite

“Amateur grammar snobs are a lot like amateur gynecologists--they're everywhere, they're all to eager to offer their services, and they're anything but gentle.”
― June Casagrande, Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies: A Guide to Language for Fun and Spite

“As you can see, the hyphen is a nasty, tricky, evil little mark that gets its kicks igniting arguments in newsrooms and trying to make everyone in the English-speaking world look like an idiot - it's the Bill Maher of punctuation.”
― June Casagrande, Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies: A Guide to Language for Fun and Spite