Is “vernacular” in your vernacular? While it was part of my mom’s, “funicular” wasn’t. Those mountain-climbing trains — and really anything that climbed higher than a flight of stairs — is something ...

Sometimes, I can answer a reader's letter with a simple "yes" or "no." But what fun would that be? "Mr. Baumann, can anything be done to stop writers from using the phrase 'the likes of'?" wrote David ...

Not every academic is a grammar geek. Yet most of us have pet peeves that tend to irk us when we spot them in our students’ work. And we’re spotting them more than ever, thanks to the hit that ...

It seems to me that grammar is one of those things that people love, hate, love to hate, or hate to love. No one just sort of likes or dislikes it. Ellen Jovin, author of ”Rebel with a Clause: Tales ...