Cure for the Obscure: Grammar Exercises that Clear Up Cloudy Rules

What is the difference between a palindrome and an anagram? Who knew that there was a specific order to use when your description of a noun includes multiple adjectives? When does punctuation go inside the quotation marks and when does it go outside? What in the world is a toponym?

The exercise on “Nym-ble Speech” identifies some familiar and some unfamiliar “nym” words. You probably know what an acronym is, but have you ever heard of a backronym? We talk to one another and write words in some form every day. Wouldn’t it be fun if our speech could be considered “nimble?”