For his graduate research comparing languages around the world, Lewis Lawyer, Ph.D. ’15, couldn’t find a single published reference book on Patwin, an endangered language once spoken in hundreds of ...

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 ...

Think twice the next time you decide to forego the Oxford comma. For the non-grammar nerds in the room, the Oxford comma, otherwise known as the serial comma, is the comma used just before the ...

In the gymnasium of conspiracy, Jared Lee Loughner's belief that "The government is implying mind control and brain wash on the people by controlling grammar" seems unusually tortured, not least ...

Ah, the memories of Spanish class: Irregular verbs; indefinite articles; prepositional phrases; and those cheesy, repetitious dialogues. It’s enough to make a person want to forget. That’s why Judy ...