GENTLE READER: While she is always up for a good grammatical fight, Miss Manners still considers this a pretty minor ...

The inauguration of the 47 th US president is more than a month away. Yet, for all intents and purposes, Trump is in power, calling the shots. Mar-a- Lago, his 1927-built, antique-studded mansion ...

Nouns are by far the largest category of words in English. They signify all kinds of physical things both living and inanimate. They also signify imagined things like ‘a ghost’; and ideas or c ...

Language experts point out that certain sentence constructs using 'because' or 'why' can veer off into questionable ...