Related:

• Rules for Writers: Avoid run-on sentences they are hard to read.
  Don't use no double negatives. Use the semicolon properly, always use it where it is appropriate...
• Watch out for irregular verbs which has cropped into our language. -- Writing Rule 04
• Ensign, if you encounter any holes...steer clear. -- Riker to Wesley, "Where Silence Has Lease", stardate 42193.
  6...
• T is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.
  -- George Washington (1732-1799) -- His Farewell Addre...
• Channel 6's own Krusty the Klown has gathered members of the entertainment community, who normally steer clear of fashionable causes.
  .. -- Kent Brockman's news report, "Radio Ba...
• Verbs has to agree with their subjects.
• hexadecimal n. Base 16. Coined in the early 1960s to replace earlier `sexadecimal', which was too racy and amusing for stuffy IBM, and later adopted by the rest of the industry.
  Actually, neither term is etymologically pure. If we take `binary' to be paradigmatic, the most etymologically correct term for base 10, for example, is `denary', which comes from `deni' (ten at a time, ten each), a Latin `distributive' numbe...
• hexadecimal:: n. Base 16. Coined in the early 1960s to replace earlier `sexadecimal', which was too racy and amusing for stuffy IBM, and later adopted by the rest of the industry.
  Actually, neither term is etymologically pure....
• We never sent a messenger save with the language of his folk, that he might make the message clear for them.
  -- The Kora...