Mark Liberman, the University of Pennsylvania linguist, has written about this several times and unearthed many perfectly respectable cases of parts comprising a whole throughout the history of modern ...

It’s a perpetual lament: The purity of the English language is under assault. These days we are told that our ever-texting teenagers can’t express themselves in grammatical sentences. The media ...

I think of English usage as one of those subjects like cocktails or the British royal family. A lot of people take a passing interest in it but you never know who's going to turn out to be a true ...