Writing with proper grammar is one of the easiest ways to establish credibility. For example, when was the last time you trusted the guy who opened his email with “Hello please sirs and madam” and ...

In response to my column highlighting amusing errors, a reader questioned my emphasis on proper grammar. "I enjoy reading your column," he wrote, "and I do try to write succinctly. However, in this ...

In the year 1712, the essayist Jonathan Swift put forth quite a radical proposal for "Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining" the English tongue. According to Swift, Latin had arrived at "a great ...

We all have our little obsessions, those events, people or things that provoke a passionate reaction in us, whether it's reasonable or not. For some it might be an unwavering devotion to a sports team ...

ELON, North Carolina — My favorite bumper sticker I’ve never seen: Commas matter. So I’ve always thought, and do still believe with the passion of one whose knuckles were rapped for grammatical errors ...

The English language is a perplexing enterprise. Sadly, rarely do you hear it spoken or written correctly during these days of mass communication. In fact you may find errors in this column. But for a ...

Arts Uproars: Open, Shut, Fired, Down for the Count, and Nowhere to Be Found Manchán Magan, Keeper of the Irish Language Audio By Carbonatix In an op-ed for the New York Times this past Sunday, ...

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 ...

The most-followed Democratic presidential candidate has the least grammatically correct Facebook supporters, according to a new online study from Grammarly. Hillary Clinton’s supporters made the most ...