This week I have a tidbit about the phrase pipe dream and a meeting middle about when

you use a comma to introduce a quotation.

It might be more complicated than you think.

But first, two weeks ago I proposed Grammarista as something language enthusiasts could call

themselves instead of Grammar Nazi.

But you, my dear listeners, out did me many times over.

I loved all your other suggestions.

Katie, who goes by I Hate Toast, has a friend who uses grambo, like Rambo.

Kim on Facebook calls herself the Empress of Editing, and another Kim likes Grammar

Smith, which I like too because it evokes the idea of a blacksmith, and my Twitter list

of writers is already labeled wordsmiths.

But my very favorite suggestion came from Lydia on Facebook, who recommended Guardians

of Grammar, which in my mind immediately became Guardians of the Grammarie because I

loved the movie Guardians of the Galaxy.

The E.R.Y. suffix is used a few different ways.

For example, it can indicate that you're talking about a place such as a nunnery, a bakery,

and a brewery.

Where nuns live or where people bake and brew.

And it can also be used to describe an art or practice such as trickery.

My best find as I was researching the E.R.Y. suffix, though, was in the Oxford English

Dictionary, which notes that the E.R.Y. suffix is often used to, quote, denote the place

where certain animals are kept, unquote, such as a piggery and a swanery.

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