Psychologists in the UK have found that children as young as two years old have an understanding of complex grammar even before they have learned to speak in full sentences. Psychologists at the ...

The 3rd-graders at P.S. 277 in Brooklyn twisted upward in their seats, hands fluttering on outstretched arms like flags atop a pole. As teacher Janet Kennedy recognized them, they marched in turn to ...

After publishing my last post on grammar, I was proclaimed by one of my siblings “a real nerd.” This public declaration of dorkery got me thinking about nerds. While the term was once pejorative, the ...

Whom should we trust when it comes to a confusing question of English usage? Why, our Contributor Faith Salie, that's who! "Whom" is an endangered species. Just ask Katy Perry and John Mayer ("Who You ...