Vampires are everywhere at the moment. At the movies (Twilight), on your TV (True Blood)and in your copy. It’s nothing new. E.B. White recognised the problem in his revision of Strunk’s Elements of Style: Rather, very, little, pretty – these are the leeches that infest the pond of prose, sucking the blood of words. White was writing back in the 1950s, though. With the internet making writers and publishers of us all, those little words aren’t just leeches: they’re full-grown vampires. And they n