Opinion

Editor’s Column: Please. Stop. Capitalizing. Everything.

I’ve been accused of being the “grammar police” more than once. I’m really not. Language, particularly English, is notoriously subjective. Even the experts don’t always agree on the rules. Case in point: an argument about the use of the Oxford comma (the comma that goes at the end of a list or series before the conjunction) resulted in a $10 million court settlement in Maine in 2018.

Litigious commas aside, confusion over homonyms, homophones…