A while back, when office work was still a thing and I was surrounded by people called “colleagues,” I wrote a sentence on a piece of paper then walked to several co-workers’ desks. “Would you read ...

“Patent drafters should be cautious about the proper use of the indefinite articles ‘a’ and ‘an.’” “A” is one of the smallest words, but it is not the simplest—most Supreme Court judges can disagree ...