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Linguists at the End of Their Rope Mar. 12, 2014
Can you find 25 usage errors in the following story about a tug of war between the Prescriptivists a... Read More
Giving Letters the Silent Treatment Feb. 05, 2014
Should you pronounce the "t" in "often"? The "l" in "almond"? Though "often" was pronounced with a "... Read More
Extra! Extra! Headlines Take Headers! Jan. 29, 2014
Readers often send me collections of funny headlines, but I don't use them in my column because I ca... Read More
Coming Clean About 2013 Jan. 08, 2014
As the new year dawns, it's time for me to fess up to the mistakes I made in my column last year. C... Read More
Agnes
Jan. 06, 2014
