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 ...

“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 ...

Arts Uproars: Open, Shut, Fired, Down for the Count, and Nowhere to Be Found Manchán Magan, Keeper of the Irish Language Audio By Carbonatix In an op-ed for the New York Times this past Sunday, ...

“Why can’t the English teach their children how to speak?” asked Professor Henry Higgins in the musical “My Fair Lady.” It’s a good question for Americans, especially millennials. On a recent flight ...

Regarding Joan Webber’s recent letter on participles and commas, wherein she claims that people misuse “existential,” she is plainly mistaken (”Prickly participles? Speaking proper English is ...

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 ...

“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 ...