In the late 1990s, a friend told me she had used the word “exponentially” in a debate with her brother-in-law. “That’s not a word!” her brother-in-law insisted. “Of course it is,” my friend replied.

Google Search has a number of built-in tools from its dictionary to a metronome and multi-sided die, with the most recent addition letting you check grammar on mobile and desktop. Google says its ...

The lexicographer Kory Stamper’s new book, Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries, is an eloquent defense of a “live and let live” approach to English. Well, you know what they say about ...

As much humor as autocorrect's mistakes have bestowed on us, it would be nice if our "smart" phones understood the most embarrassing of grammar errors, changing our "its" to "it's" and correcting all ...

He detected a flaw in the Cobuild English Dictionary and convinced the publishers to make changes. His has earned the respect of world famous intellectuals for his knowledge of the language. He loves ...

Millennials can’t even with your bad grammar and spelling. That’s according to a poll conducted by Harris for Dictionary.com, which found that 74% of Americans ages 18 to 34 are annoyed by grammar and ...

Adjectives in English must always be used in a very precise order. And even though none of us has officially learned this rule, placeholderwe somehow all know to follow it, and that things seem very ...

THIS is perhaps as complete a guide to the study of the Samoan language as could be expected under the circumstances. It consists, properly, of four parts: a grammar, which, for obvious reasons, is ...