I recently fielded questions about two subject-verb agreement errors that readers noticed in the media. One was heard on an NPR program. The other was committed by, um, a columnist who should have ...

Whenever I stumble upon a word I don’t know how to use, I hit up the dictionary search bar. As a health and sex writer, I’m mostly looking up multisyllabic mumbo-jumbo like endocannabinoid, perineum, ...

A friend emailed recently to ask about the grammar on a T-shirt that read: “The only minority destroying the country are the billionaires.” His question: “Am I wrong or is the grammar on her T-shirt ...

AT THE turn of each year, several dictionary publishers and language groups choose Words of the Year. How did everyone do for 2015? If you’re a traditionalist, whether on language or culture more ...

This year, the American Dialect Society made news by announcing that the singular "they" was their word of the year, and now The Comma Queen over at The New Yorker has a video discussing that decision ...

Some sneaky words out there look like plurals but take a singular verb. "Whereabouts" is one of those words, and here's an example from Monday's front page: Gadhafi’s defenders quickly melted away as ...

There are plenty of flashpoints for controversy littered among the grand pantheon of four-letter words. Plenty of examples probably come to mind immediately — from the relatively tame ("heck," anyone?

(Reuters) - U.S. linguists on Friday chose "they" as their Word of the Decade, recognising the growing use of third-person plural pronouns as a singular form to refer to people who identify their ...

Sorry, grammarian traditionalists: The singular “they” is not only acceptable but has been chosen Word of the Year for 2015. Its usage has been a source of ...

American linguists have named the singular pronoun “they” their word of the decade. For the past 30 years, the American Dialect Society, which was founded more than 130 years ago, has selected words ...

Sometimes Google will show one or the other and sometimes not. It depends and that is why you need to try different things and make sure to understand how your prospects will search for your products ...