The article offers the author's insights on the confusing placement of the word both. The author says that the placement of the word both always leads him off course. He mentions several sentences that gave him wrong interpretations due to the placement of the word, including one from the work "Cadillac Desert," by Marc Reisner and an entry on Wikipedia regarding American neurosurgeon Sanjay Gupta. He suggests moving the word in the sentences to avoid confusion.