I am a language perfectionist.  I attended a parochial elementary school and high school, where I received a language arts education that was proud to claim zero tolerance for errors in any form of language expression and use.  From approximately 5th grade forward I "tutored" other students in reading, writing, sentence diagramming, spelling, and comprehension.  In college (University of IL at Champaign as a James Scholar) I again tutored (or informally assisted) other students in Rhetoric and essay writing. Later, as an Eleanor Scholar, I again tutored in basic essay writing.  But because of a long career in the clinical and research medical setting, and I have reviewed grant applications and study publication submissions to medical journals, made by English and foreign speaking researchers. My great strength is in medical writing and editing, most specifically in Oncology, but in other specialties as well.  In short, I am a language lover who experiences true anguish when I encounter misuse. I once wrote a paper based on the contention that language is the skeleton or structure upon which we form our very thoughts, and that without language our thoughts could not take on a viable form.  