Even the best of us get certain words confused. For me, it’s exasperate and exacerbate. Whichever of those words I’m supposed to use, I’m using the other one. Maybe for you it’s bear vs. bare, or canvas vs. canvass. It’s rough out in these grammar streets. Luckily, Nashville has someone with the smarts and the sense of humor to help. Kristin Whittlesey has 30 years of experience in Nashville media. She was a founding editor at The Rage and assistant features editor for The Tennessean, and now she’s with PR firm Hall Strategies. These days, she starts each day by drawing a whiteboard cartoon about the difference between words like feign, feint and faint, and we are all the smarter for it. Find her on X at @KAWhittlesey.Â
Best Grammar Cartoonist
