When we’re speaking, we generate 150 words a minute. Written By: Doug Lewandowski, For the News Tribune | 5:00 am, Dec. 23, 2020 × Doug Lewandowski As a person who writes, I can correct screwups before I send them to my editor. If I go over a piece of writing 15 to 20 times, chances are, it will come out OK. There is one area of communication, however, where I can’t count on being able to improve my butchering of the English language — that would be in speaking it. I am given to verbal fumbling all the time, and inevitably, with the presence of my in-house grammar Nazi, I will hear about it. The worst is he/him, she/her, and lie/lay. Get the picture? The words fly out in an inappropriate way before I can redirect them. At times, I cringe after completing a sentence, knowing it ain’t right — er, isn’t correct.