If you have ever had to design a newsletter, Web page, or some other document that needs a lot of text which hasn't been written yet, you've probably gone looking for placeholder text. Publishers have ...

placeholder, the title of the new album by Hand Habits, may at first scan as a wry joke, à la the Breeders’ Title TK: We couldn’t come up with a name, so we just left the placeholder in. But the song ...

Some years ago, through a series of editing oversights, a friend of mine accidentally published some placeholder text in a national magazine. He had written the phrase "something something something" ...

This is the Grammar Guy column, a weekly feature written by Curtis Honeycutt. You probably know about placeholder names even if you don’t know that’s what they’re called. That’s the whole point; ...