Gail Hershenzon, a substitute teacher from Novi, Mich., walked into a first-grade classroom one morning and discovered this item on her daily schedule: “10 a.m. — bathroom the children.” While Gail ...

This is the Grammar Guy column, a weekly feature written by Curtis Honeycutt. There’s an ad out right now for Google’s Chromebook laptop with a slogan that says, “Switch to a new way to laptop.” While ...

Conservatives prefer using nouns, new transatlantic research suggests. The research also established that conservatives generally, to a greater degree than liberals, tend to refer to things by their ...

We have two new entries here, both present participles of verbs that might or might not exist. First is “efforting.” YourDictionary.com has one of the few online definitions, which consists entirely ...

Adjectives describe nouns. In grammatical jargon, we say they “modify” nouns. One noun can support more than one adjective, as in “a vicious, interminable quarrel.” The adjectives “vicious” and ...

Is Anna Kendrick an actress or an actor? Is it ever okay to refer to her as a comedienne? These days, gender-specific nouns are often considered inappropriate. Our waiters and waitresses are now ...

A new study has found that parent word choice matters when encouraging preschool-age children to help others. Children were significantly more likely to help an experimenter when he or she referred to ...

New transatlantic research led by a psychologist at the University of Kent suggests conservatives prefer using nouns. As part of the study researchers found that US presidents who were considered ...