Plain Language

Caryn Gootkin continues her series on punctuation by demystifying the semi-colon, which has been called the scariest punctuation mark. Semi-colons...

My seven-year-old has starting learning Hebrew at school. This is the moment I have been waiting for; I have neglected...

Caryn Gootkin suggests alternatives to gender-specific pronouns that will make your writing more accurate, less offensive and plainer. The principles...

In Caryn Gootkin’s humble opinion, we should write in plain language and talk in plain speech. Much of the discussion...

Caryn Gootkin’s alter ego, the Pedantic Player, advises the greedy and gullible to watch out for email scammers with their...

When the editor sent Caryn Gootkin a copy of the sports minister’s 25 January statement about Bafana Bafana, a plain...