Book Layout: Choosing Fonts for Your Book
Discover the best fonts, font sizes, legalities, etc., of what you can safely use in your book in this Book Layout and Formatting Ideas post from KD Did It.
Discover the best fonts, font sizes, legalities, etc., of what you can safely use in your book in this Book Layout and Formatting Ideas post from KD Did It.
The beach is the land above the waterline while the coast is wherever the water meets the land. The shore is between the high- and low-tide water marks in this Word Confusion from KD Did It. Naturally, there are other options for all three.
This word confusion of effigy vs sculpture vs statue arose out of a professional discussion with a client as to the best word to describe an image. We went round and round until I decided I needed to clear up this word confusion for myself. While all three are considered statues which can be sculpted, molded, carved, or cast in both three dimensions or in relief, the difference is in: The ultimate use of an effigy is in memory of a dead person or to vilify someone A sculpture can be humongous or small. It may be of a person, an animal, or part of a person or animal or a representation of something more abstract. A statue usually represents a person, an animal, or part of a person or animal and can also be large or small (a statuette or figurine) Return to top Exploring Later . . . You may want to explore “Statue versus Statute“. Return to top Word Confusions . . . . . . started as my way of dealing with a professional frustration with properly spelled words that were out of context in manuscripts I was editing as well as books I was reviewing. […]
A blanket is a single layer of fabric while a comforter is two layers stuffed with a filling and a quilt is two layers with a filling that is all stitched together in this Word Confusion from KD Did It.
Endurance is doing something at normal or low intensity while stamina is how long a person can do something at maximum effort in this Word Confusion from KD Did It.
Stuff and things are the same, EXCEPT that stuff can’t be counted and things CAN be counted in this Word Confusion from KD Did it.
An artist and an artiste are similar in that both are skilled in the arts or in an occupation, although the first also has a reprehensible “career” in this Word Confusion from KD Did It.
A home and a house are both places where people live, yet a home is where you live and a house is where people live in this Word Confusion from KD Did It.
It was my own curiosity that led me to explore the # sign. What is the difference in this symbol hashtag versus pound sign? It turns out that the only real difference (when writing out #) is that a hashtag uses it in front of the text and numbers while the pound uses it for weight and is placed behind the numbers. Hashtag has many definitions as a noun (only one as a verb). It’s most popular usage is as an indicator for a metadata tag in social media. Pound is split between weight and money (in this post), and while the money symbol doesn’t actually relate to the # symbol, it does refer to numbers. I thought it was important to include £. NOTE: Pound, in this post, is only defined as a noun in terms of weight or money. Return to top The Properly Punctuated explores . . . . . . the proper use of quotation marks, commas, semicolons, colons, ellipsis, etc., including how to properly mark dialog, ahem. As Properly Punctuated is in no way complete, I would appreciate suggestions and comments from anyone on punctuation with which you struggle or on which you can contribute […]
Both accord and accordance are nouns (accord is also a verb). Accord is an agreement between two or more while accordance is more about conformity in this Word Confusion from KD Did It.