“Sorry, did I just rock your world?” Barg says, like a total badass, when I fall silent, enjoying a rare mic-drop moment for a grammarian. “Logically, I think that makes sense,” he continues, laying ...
You want everybody speaking ‘elitist’ English? Calibrating your language is an ongoing process. You might be shocked at how mainstream the F-word has become. For ages now, commentators have ...
What next, trouble at tmill? A row in the UK has locals and council members at odds over apostrophes, and yes – this does ...
Late West Saxon was the dialect that became the first standardised written "English" ("Winchester standard"), sometimes ...
A powerful piece - encaustic combined with collaged yard sticks and ephemera promises to surprise and intrigue the viewer. Encaustic and mixed media on panel 5' x 5' Signed by artist ...
She was also known as the Myron family grammarian. An active card player, she would play a game of Bridge or Cribbage at the drop of a hat and win most every time. In the Palmer Road neighborhood ...
Most recently a ninth-grader at Godeok Middle School in Seoul wrote about the near impossible state of affairs concerning ...
(Did you know, for example, that it was a woman, the grammarian Ann Fisher, who, circa 1750, determined that the masculine pronoun includes the feminine? Oh, the tangled webs we weave.) Now ...
He’s a San Francisco native and a 2016 graduate of Tufts University with degrees in engineering and economics. He is a prescriptive grammarian and it’s insufferable.
For these word nerds, their love language is actually just language. The funny musical, "The Angry Grammarian," about the ...
What surprises, time and again, is the relevance of legal maxims to modern problems. A dialogue continued. You want everybody speaking ‘elitist’ English? Calibrating your language is an ...