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 ...

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A belated thank you for the “m” in the Feb 25 headline in the celebrities column: “‘Idol’: Whom do you like?” It would be so easy to omit the “m” because so few people still speak that way. I applaud ...

The new question-of-the-week is: How should we teach grammar to students? Our students need to learn grammar, but the real question is how to teach it in ways that don’t bore them out of their minds.

Today’s linguistic lesson is a two-parter. Well, if you really want to get into it, it could potentially be several parts. And, when I say “parts,” I mean body parts. I can talk your earlobes off ...