You’ve probably heard the old story about the pedant who dared to tinker with Winston Churchill’s writing because the great man had ended a sentence with a preposition. Churchill’s scribbled response: ...

Not long ago, a cellphone was a cell phone. A teenager was a teen-ager. Goodbye was good-bye. A website was a Web site. Legroom was leg room. Words and compounds evolve all the time. But in this ...

Politics are so polarized these days — or should that be politics IS so polarized? — that it's hard to reach an agreement on anything. Don't believe me? Try this quiz on subject-verb agreement: No. 1: ...