Oregon lawmakers met April 1 to consider a phantom. The bill on tap for the Senate Judiciary Committee that Tuesday could hardly have been more simple. In a scant eight lines, Senate Bill 469 ordered ...

If you have ever had to design a newsletter, Web page, or some other document that needs a lot of text which hasn't been written yet, you've probably gone looking for placeholder text. Publishers have ...

Some years ago, through a series of editing oversights, a friend of mine accidentally published some placeholder text in a national magazine. He had written the phrase "something something something" ...

placeholder, the title of the new album by Hand Habits, may at first scan as a wry joke, à la the Breeders’ Title TK: We couldn’t come up with a name, so we just left the placeholder in. But the song ...

When people call something a hidden gem, they usually mean the subject in question is great but underappreciated so not many folks know about it. They much more seldomly mean it's actually hidden, ...

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This is the Grammar Guy column, a weekly feature written by Curtis Honeycutt. You probably know about placeholder names even if you don’t know that’s what they’re called. That’s the whole point; ...