I am in complete sympathy with Ellen Jovin and her confounding prickly participles and commas, (”Confounding commas, prickly participles,” Ideas, July 24). It seems as though hardly anyone has command ...

What is the good of books on “proper English?” If you felt self-conscious about the way you spoke in the late nineteenth century, you might throw yourself on the mercy of Oliver Bell Bunce’s guide, ...

Glories of the Gilded Age, at Chicago’s Driehaus Museum This Halloween, Treat Yourself to a Neglected Horror Masterpiece Audio By Carbonatix In an op-ed for the New York Times this past Sunday, ...

“LET’S talk properly.” Tom Sherrington had little reason to think that his blog post, so titled, would cause controversy. A British consultant and former head teacher, he had called on educators to ...

COULTER: One thing that I know, because I know people who know her, is when Sarah Palin first burst on the scene, the political scene, she wanted to have a meeting with Palin, because she saw raw ...

Speaking Spanish and "proper" English are not mutually exclusive. A few weeks ago, I struck up a conversation with someone at an airport. After a couple of hours of chatting, my phone rang and it was ...