Language Guardian Editing and Writing Services

Whether you are looking for assistance with textbooks or handbooks, letters or reports, essays or articles, novels or stories, brochures or advertisements, Language Guardian has the editing and writing skills that you require.

Email your material, and I will correct it for grammatical errors, spelling mistakes, and stylistic imperfections. If you've written a story or other piece of fiction, I will also note any questions or concerns I have.

Instructions

1. Make your payment through PayPal. Count the number of pages your material contains, and click on the appropriate dollar amount on the right.

2. Email your material (preferably as a Microsoft Word attachment), along with any instructions, to editor@vocabula.com. If you prefer, you may first call me at (978) 546-3911 to discuss your project.

For editing jobs of 10 pages or fewer, I will return your material to you within 48 hours.

Editing Fees

(these fees are based on double-spaced, not single-spaced, pages)

More than 10 pages, ask for a quote.

For writing rates, email editor@vocabula.com, or call (978) 546-3911 to discuss your project.

Robert Hartwell Fiske

Robert Hartwell Fiske is the owner of Language Guardian Editing and Writing Services. He is also the editor and publisher of The Vocabula Review. And he is the author of several books about language, including:

• Robert Hartwell Fiske's Dictionary of Unendurable English
• The Dimwit's Dictionary, Third Edition
• The Best Words
• The Dictionary of Concise Writing
• Vocabula Bound 1: Outbursts, Insights, Explanations, and Oddities
• Vocabula Bound 2: Our Wresting, Writhing Tongue
• 101 Elegant Paragraphs

The Dictionary of Unendurable English
A Compendium of Mistakes in Grammar, Usage, and Spelling with Commentary on Lexicographers and Linguists

Today's popular dictionaries often fail to define words correctly or to distinguish between them; some dictionaries even maintain that one word means the same as another simply because people who do not know the correct meanings of the words confuse them. Robert Hartwell Fiske's Dictionary of Unendurable English — a supplement to whatever dictionary you own or use — is an attempt to combat this nonsense, to return meaning and distinction to the words we use.

You can order The Dictionary of Unendurable English from Vocabula or Simon & Schuster or Amazon or elsewhere.

Robert Hartwell Fiske's Disagreeable English
A Bulletin of Misused, Misspelled, and Mispronounced English

Four times a year, we will email you this addendum to The Dictionary of Unendurable English. Each bulletin will include new examples of misused, misspelled, or mispronounced English.

The cost is $25 a year. Sign up today. Please make your credit card payment using PayPal. You may also order individual issues.

The Dimwit's Dictionary, Third Edition

Whereas a witticism is a clever remark or phrase — indeed, the height of expression — a "dimwitticism" is the converse; it is a commonplace remark or phrase. Dimwitticisms are worn-out words and phrases; they are expressions that dull our reason and dim our insight, formulas that we rely on when we are too lazy to express what we think or even to discover how we feel. The more we use them, the more we conform — in thought and feeling — to everyone else who uses them.

You can order The Dimwit's Dictionary, Third Edition from Vocabula or Amazon or elsewhere.

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