If one intends to dredge up the archaic grammar of Early Modern English for the sake of whimsy, as in the headline on Kathleen Parker's April 21 op-ed column, "Whither the wife goest," one should ...

Grammar Guy: The top 10 funniest words in the English language, according to science I have a 5-year-old son. Right now toilet humor is big. Body parts are funny.

Helping students put archaic English grammar rules under a magnifying glass should be one of the tasks entrusted to us as educators. Mo Reddad is a lecturer at I-Shou University’s department of ...

The case of an august part of old English grammar being regarded as a vulgar American import is an odd one. Writers of usage guides have tended to be a conservative lot.

There is more than one way to build your vocabulary. One of the best ways I know is the study of “morphemes.” Every word has at least one morpheme, such ...

Voices Grammar schools are a fantastic idea – they will finally kill off our archaic private school system Can you imagine the quivers of anxiety running through the wood-panelled staff rooms in ...

Nowhere in Old English grammar is there actually a precise ancestor for ‘the’. But some time over the 1100s it entered our language. Men say ‘the’ significantly more frequently than women.

Mea Culpa: he looketh up some archaic English word endings Our resident pedant John Rentoul casts his eye over the past week’s Independent coverage Sunday 01 September 2024 06:00 BST 0 Comments ...