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Tara L. from New Jersey asked, "Are you smitten BY someone or smitten WITH someone?" 'Smitten With' or 'Smitten…
Today’s topic is Yoda’s grammar. Yes, Yoda from Star Wars. Why would I talk about Yoda? Well, a couple of weeks…
Ain’t is possibly the most-maligned word in the English grammar guides. Even though many other contractions are now acceptable in…
Last week, when I was grading my college students’ midterms, I noticed that more than half the students didn’t…
Doms wrote in with an interesting question that touches on both Latin and global English. He said, “In the Philippines,…
Wrongly is an adverb, and the word comes up a lot in news stories: people are wrongly arrested, wrongly jailed,…
Readers often write in to complain about starting a sentence with so, even suggesting that it sounds condescending. Anand Giridharadas…
A few years ago, a man named D. Chap wrote in and said, “I was thinking about the words dreamed…
Typeface Versus Font First, we have to talk about the difference between a typeface and a font, because what…
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