Barbara Wallraff is a writer and editor in Cambridge. She writes The Wordshop on Substack. The challenge last time was to come up with “a word to describe a friendship that has evolved into more of a ...

The mark of fluent English-language writers or speakers is the way they effortlessly do away with words mandated by formal grammar, but which only impede the quick delivery of their ideas. Nonnative ...

So, you’re driving a car at half the speed of light. (Both hands on the wheel, please.) You turn on the headlights. How fast would you see this light traveling? What about a person standing by the ...

Jason Fernando is a professional investor and writer who enjoys tackling and communicating complex business and financial problems. Somer G. Anderson is CPA, doctor of accounting, and an accounting ...

Good news, kind of. I discovered a new sentence structure I hate. It’s a pattern I see often but only recently, while editing an article, realized it belongs in my writing hall of shame. Why would I ...

In the world of English grammar, you’re familiar with pronouns. Words like “he,” “she,” and “it” refer to certain common or proper nouns. However, there’s another subset of pronouns that can ...

In a stark warning of things to come JOHN ELLISON invokes the ideological splitting of hairs that weakened any and all opposition to the unravelling WWI when 22 million of mostly Europeans lost their ...