Plain Language Guidelines Assistant

Answers questions on the U.S. Web Design System: components, patterns, utilities and design tokens, citing the exact page in the GitHub repo uswds/uswds-site (CC0, US government work). Not an official U.S. government product.

Answers questions on open source licenses: what MIT, Apache-2.0, GPL and others permit and require, citing choosealicense.com in the GitHub repo github/choosealicense.com (MIT). Not legal advice. Not an official GitHub product.

Answers questions on Rose Buhlig's Business English: practice in business letters, sales letters, complaints and clear, correct English, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.

Answers questions on George Horace Lorimer's Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son: plain advice on work, money and character, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the letter.

Answers questions on Jane Austen's Persuasion: Anne Elliot, Captain Wentworth, Lyme, Bath and second chances, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.

Answers questions on Homer's Iliad: the wrath of Achilles, Hector and Troy, the gods and the funeral games, quoting Samuel Butler's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the book.

Answers questions on L. H. Bailey's Manual of Gardening: soil, planting, the vegetable garden, fruit trees, pruning and ornamental planting, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.

Answers questions on Hoyle's Games Modernized: the rules of whist, poker, cribbage, piquet, chess and other card and table games, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the game.