Tue, August 28, 2012 Published on Aug. 28, 2012 Published on 2012-08-28T05:00:00+07:00 t was early in the morning Indonesian time and almost iftar time in Madison when one of my colleagues asked me ...

Bryan A. Garner, the founder of LawProse, is the author of “Garner’s Modern American Usage” and the editor in chief of Black’s Law Dictionary. Robert Lane Greene Robert Lane Greene, an international ...

Nature or nurture. Love it or leave it. If it doesn’t fit, you must acquit. If you didn’t already know that euphonious dichotomies are usually phony dichotomies, you need only check out the latest ...

(RNS) — In 1712, Jonathan Swift, the Anglican clergyman most famous for his brilliant satire, published “A Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue.” Complaining that the ...

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The Oxford English Dictionary tells us the truth about our language. It's not a prescriptivist dictionary, it's descriptivist, embracing slang of all sorts You can save this article by registering for ...

I WOULDN'T have expected Kingsley Amis to be the one to nail this just right, but he did. His son Martin wrote an essay for the Guardian a little while back about Kingsley's 1997 usage book "The ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook When me found out I’d been hired to work at The Daily I wuz so excited, I screemed. If you cringed ...