Oh, dear. It had to happen sooner or later: a direct clash with Chronicle editorial authority over a point of 19th-century prescriptive grammar. My Our esteemed editor, Heidi Landecker, who has saved ...

Competition between the ‘Yankees’ and ‘Limeys’ (derogatory terms) spanning decades is, to a larger extent, responsible for the American and British versions of the English language. Out of this ...

Last year, I wrote of the rise of the young prescriptivist here on Fully (Sic). I mentioned the potential increase of prescriptive behaviour among young people, despite the introduction of a more ...

Grammar nerds: It’s your day, National Grammar Day, all day Thursday. For those of us who struggled in high school, groaning if the English teacher mentioned the word “essay,” take heart. It is almost ...

A new study reveals just how strong the influence of mass-market books promoting a certain style of writing have had on authors since they were first published in the late 1950s. A new study reveals ...

A weekend Atlantic archive classic: Geoffrey Nunberg's 1983 essay on the changing nature of grammar and its police: The point of traditional grammar was to demonstrate a way of thinking about ...