I recently remarked that comprise/compose is the Masonic handshake of editors. For those of you who are not among the initiate, let me explain. Comprise, then, is the box that contains the parts, and ...

It was odd. One day I’m correcting writers’ use of this word, and the next day I’m using it in the same way that I’ve been treating as an error for years ...

SAN JOSE, Calif.-- Bryan Henderson's story is comprised of a single obsession: the misuse of the phrase "comprised of." As in -- an ax is comprised of a handle and a head. It's supposed to be ...

Did you hear the one about the guy who went onto Wikipedia and deleted 47,000 instances of the phrase “comprised of”? Oh, dear. I hope you’re not waiting for a punch line, because that’s the whole ...

"A substance comprised of pigments suspended in a carrier is paint." Can you spot the mistake in the above sentence? Answer: It's the use of the term "comprised of." It's a conflation of "comprised" ...

Did you hear the one about the guy who went onto Wikipedia and deleted 47,000 instances of the phrase "comprised of"? I hope you're not waiting for a punch line, because that's the whole story: A guy ...

‘Consist’ and ‘comprise’ are two commonly used words that describe what something is made of. Because they are synonyms, they are often confused especially in terms of the grammatical habits of each.