Six Screwy Scenarios; sequel to Five Flubs

6.   Anyway or anyways?
Any way you look at it, the word to use is anyway. NO S.
5.   Toward or towards?
Same as above. NO S (at least in the U.S.) Brits say towards, Americans use toward. I wish knew why.
4.   Principal or principle
My fifth-grade teacher told me:
Use principal when referring to a person: remember the school [...]

Fab Five Flubs

Though the following examples may not be the worst grammatical goofs, I see them frequently and they drive me crazy:
5.   Its or it’s?
If you don’t know which one to use, try this simple test: Say it is in place of it’s in your sentence and if it works, it’s (it is) it’s! If not, it is [...]

Double Whammy

Have you ever been faced with the dilemma of writing a sentence that was both a question and an exclamation, and you didn’t know what punctuation to use? And if you used both, you didn’t know whether the question mark or exclamation point should be first?
What the hell happened here?!
Well, according to my bible, the Chicago [...]

Capital Offenses

Remember the elementary school rule to capitalize proper names of “persons, places, and things”? It all seemed so simple, but once you go beyond “see Spot run,” the rule becomes less clear.
Judy is the judge on television. Do you ever watch Judge Judy?
The Supreme Court is the highest court in the land.
I’m going to visit [...]