According to one of many versions of the story, an editor revised a sentence of Churchill's so the final word wasn't a ...

The English language is full of all sorts of quirks that can be infuriating to non-native speakers. (Imagine learning as an adult that cough, enough, and though all make different sounds.) To ...

Rules and Nonrules. Robert Lane Greene 4:43 PM. Thanks for an engaging response. There’s so much in it that I’ll work from the specific to the general, because one example can sometimes ...

Stop trying to make language ‘funner.’ Grammar rules exist for a reason. Anne Curzan’s book ‘Says Who?’ goes too far in renouncing the fundamental rules of language usage ...

Challenging some long-held grammar rules. ... among my favorites in the English language: “Say it simple, so I can understand, Use all the easy words at your command. ...

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The rules of crosswords are part of a rich set of conventions shared by those who solve them—and they are intimately related to the grammar of language in general.

The English language is full of all sorts of quirks that can be infuriating to non-native speakers. (Imagine learning as an adult that cough, enough, and though all make different sounds.) To ...