In what was meant to be a stern warning to Harvard University, US Education Secretary Linda McMahon may have instead triggered a nationwide grammar lesson, directed squarely at herself. A letter ...

As state director for EdTrust-Louisiana — and a proud product of our Louisiana school system — I am deeply alarmed by the federal government’s recent actions to dismantle the U.S. Department ...

“Did a high school kid write this? You’re the Secretary of “Education” and this is a chaotic mess of bad grammar and illiterate rambling. You poked the bear and you’re too stupid to even ...

Signs indicating a scam: texts from an email or an international number; spelling errors, poor grammar or odd sentence structure; extreme urgency; and links that are not verifiable. OTA has ...

So what happens when you come across funny road signs that force you to do a double take? Perhaps it isn’t clear what the sign is warning you about or asking you to do. Or perhaps the message is ...

THE MARK of good writers is not simply the richness of their ideas and knowledge of grammar, but also their ability to set their thoughts in parallel. Even great minds would tend to communicate poorly ...

As people are exposed to more information from more sources than ever before, how they define and feel about “news” has become less clear-cut. Most people agree that information must be factual, up to ...

There's been a little kerfuffle lately over danglers. Steven Pinker, who is a noted linguist, said in an article in The Guardian that some dangling modifiers are OK to use — in fact, according ...

“The world no longer has a choice between force and law; if civilization is to survive, it must choose the rule of law.”—Paul Krugman Introduction The Council of Europe’s establishment of a Special ...

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Know your food "Different countries have different ways of complaining and the UK is notoriously very, very bad," said Brian Mcelderry, a chef with almost 50 years of experience. The Newcastle ...