The old joke goes this way. Two school teachers were discussing academics. One, a math teacher, asked the other, a language arts teacher, “Which is correct? Two and two are four or two and two is four ...

Have you celebrated National Grammar Day yet? No? Well, it's no surprise. We've been getting bad advice for years when it comes to language, says one newspaperman. Anne Dujmovic was a senior editor at ...

What is the good of books on “proper English?” If you felt self-conscious about the way you spoke in the late nineteenth century, you might throw yourself on the mercy of Oliver Bell Bunce’s guide, ...