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.

In a sign of the AI times, columnist and author June Casagrande asks ChatGPT to write a grammar book inspired by her style.

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 ...

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. That’s the charge leveled by one reader, J., who responds to ...

Grammar Moses: 'Dictionary Man' gets the last word Posted March 13, 2021 12:00 am. Jim Baumann I have many pen pals in my line of work and, of course, I quickly developed a running discourse ...

Now the Oxford English Dictionary is at it. In my previous column, I reported that “gaslighting” has been named the Word of the Year 2022 by the dictionary aficionados at Merriam-Webster. Each ...