In an age when ‘drip’ is a compliment and ‘extra’ is not, it is a very fine line between speaking properly and coming across ...

Henry W Fowler, author of Modern English Usage (1926), and Wilson Follett, author of Modern American Usage (1966), both included “barbarisms” as headwords in their guides. Fowler defined them as ...

First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the ...

Speaking too soon is one thing, but then there’s another thing. There are always two things, right? That’s what I’m having trouble figuring out.