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Dennis Baron gives us historical context on how we use personal pronouns in "What's Your Pronoun?"
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People who think that "that" cannot be used for human beings are, at best, uninformed
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A book by David Shariatmadari corrects misunderstandings of how we speak and write
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Online complaints about language usage follow a predictable pattern.
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You Don't Say has been chugging along on grammar and usage for fourteen years
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The apostrophe is our most treacherous punctuation mark
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Every time the Associated Press Stylebook announces a change it provokes misguided outrage.
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Now that nobody cares about 'hopefully' any longer, language snobs will look for another reason to sneer
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Because we're human, we're prone to error; because we're human, we don't like to admit it.
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Whether you use "controller" or "comptroller," how you say it may get someone to troll you.
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Allan Metcalf explains how the name of Gunpowder Plot figure Guy Fawkes became first a common noun, then a pronoun.
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If you don’t see empathy, humility, and a surgeon’s precision with detail, look somewhere else
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Many people labor under misconceptions about what dictionaries do and what they are for.
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Newspapers go their own way with punctuation.
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Editors have kept the "comprise/compose" distinction on life support.
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A review of "Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark" by Cecelia Watson
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Misconceptions about the way language works
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I am not a grammar cop, and we do not need a grammar police force.
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Writing can be running a gantlet between people who follow an imaginary rule and people who are utterly unaware of it.
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Great Fowler’s ghost! There has been some serious grammar and usage malpractice out there.
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