Central Writing & Editing Services

15/04/2025

Nerdy word people like editors love Brian Bilston's clever poems about the English language.

I’ve been poeming about how my nouns keep conversioning to verbs.

09/12/2024

Does someone in your life need one of these? Visit www.boabpress.com to see interior pages and find out how to order for delivery before Xmas.

23/02/2023

https://www.centralediting.com.au/plain-english-writing/

Plain English writing ensures efficient and effective communication with your target audience, and can reduce resource and production costs.

31/07/2020

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/commentisfree/2020/jul/20/words-we-think-we-know-but-cant-pronounce-the-curse-of-the-avid-reader?CMP=share_btn_tw

Do you know how to say apropos? What about awry? We want to know which words you’ve mispronounced – and how you found out your mistake

29/06/2020

Have you been on a cleaning frenzy during lockdown - or happy to let things go? If the latter, one of these words might come in handy.

We'll tidy them up and make them presentable.

16/06/2020

Today is brought to you by the letter W

The 23rd letter of the English alphabet is a bit of a wonder. The humble “w” is the only letter of the alphabet with a three-syllable name. It is also the only letter with a name that does not indicate its phonetic use. The complications of “w” are doublefold because of its name, ‘double u...

09/03/2020

Well done Oxford Dictionaries.

After extensive research, reference publisher is quietly replacing examples that ‘unnecessarily perpetuate stereotypes’ – while also reflecting how language is used

13/02/2020

One for the bucket list - a word museum.

That’s the word on the street.

07/11/2019

And then there's 'a cardigan of editors'

What do you call a group of cats? Dogs? Marmosets? Lawyers?

04/11/2019

Yes!

Multiple is a parasite, a crown of thorns sucking the life out of the coral gardens of English prose.

20/10/2019

English usage changes. Editors keep up to date.

Mistakes you may have been marked down for in the 1950s, '60s, and '70s may no longer be considered mistakes at all.

30/09/2019

Businesses enjoy cost savings as well as improved communication by focusing on plain English writing.

The benefits of plain English writing What is plain English writing? Plain English writing (or plain language writing) is text written so that it conveys the intended meaning in language that is easy to understand. It does not involve (as some might think) ‘dumbing down’ of the language but inst...