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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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He had worked on metropolitan newspaper copy desks for more than forty years, but now, as his body failed, his family had been told by the doctors that the end
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The charming article by Mary Norris on attending the recent national conference of ACES: The Society for Editing, “Dropped Hyphens, Split Infinitives, and Other
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This morning was the last day of class in my twenty-fourth year of teaching editing at Loyola University Maryland. The concluding remarks to my students are
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I was cutting the grass this morning, pushing the mower across the yard, turning, and pushing it back in the opposite direction, when boustrophedon popped into
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Over the years I’ve assembled a number of quotations on writing, editing, and grammar. From this selection, pick what would be most helpful to you if you look
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Last week at the national conference of ACES: The Society for Editing, Paula Froke, editor of the Associated Press Stylebook, asked a question during the
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Great Fowler’s ghost! That it should have come to this. I am defending the Associated Press Stylebook.
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I’m sitting in the bar, enjoying a quiet pint of Smithwick’s, when this nimrod wearing a red Make America Grammatical Again cap comes through the door and sits
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