Bob Mcquitty

The Tahlequah Men’s Book Club, founded by George Fulk, meets on the third Wednesday of every month in Tahlequah’s premier bookstore, Too Fond of Books.

Considering the upcoming presidential election, Grammar Dog thinks a column on logic and semantics might prove helpful to interested readers and voters.

In last week’s column, Grammar Dog lauded the merits of logic and semantics.

Early in my teaching career, I began “A Word a Day the McQuitty Way.” The gimmick’s name explained the method.

I hesitated to call this column grammatical punctuation because Professor Thaddeus Q. Snarf, who is assisting me with this column, is not always grammatical, but he claims to be correct.

Today’s column is about linguistics and language, both words with different vowel letters but the same root meaning. Both [ling] and [lang] come from Latin “lingua,” which means “tongue.” I

Craig and Peter Norback include in “The Must Words: The 6000 Most Important Words for a Successful and Profitable Vocabulary,” a book aimed at students who are ambitious and thinking

In my last column, I introduced the “must” words. These are words ambitious students who are thinking about any kind of advanced study should know. Since many middle school and

Last week, I promised more advice on how to be a “colorful” writer. First, you must be sure your words are “accurate, precise, and idiomatic.”

Last week, I promised to show prospective writers how to combine their colorful words with colorful, or, at least, interesting sentences.