Like recent letter-writer Joseph Koss, I went to grammar school many years ago. I conjugated verbs correctly and diagrammed sentences perfectly and with great enthusiasm. I was a word nerd, getting ...

Throughout the history of the language, what has been considered ‘bad’ speech often becomes ‘proper.’ You just have to give ...

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 ...

In an op-ed for the New York Times this past Sunday, columnist Farhad Manjoo urged Twitter users to let up on President Trump’s poor spelling in tweets, arguing that caring about spelling or grammar ...

I am in complete sympathy with Ellen Jovin and her confounding prickly participles and commas, (”Confounding commas, prickly participles,” Ideas, July 24). It seems as though hardly anyone has command ...

A friend who teaches middle school English starts the school year with a lesson on how to e-mail properly. You’d think kids born in the same year as Facebook would know this stuff, but my friend says ...