At Ford Field on Thursday, Amon-Ra St. Brown and the Detroit Lions (7-5) face Javonte Williams and the Dallas Cowboys (6-5-1) in a matchup featuring two of the brightest stars in the NFL, beginning at ...

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To understand why we’ve been getting it wrong, we need to know a little about the history of grammar teaching. Grammar is how we organise our sentences in order to communicate meaning to others. Those ...

If you saw an octopus in the water and another swam up beside it, would you say that you saw two octopuses or two octopi? Or would you insist that you saw some octopodes? Today, we’re going to look at ...

(RNS) — In 1712, Jonathan Swift, the Anglican clergyman most famous for his brilliant satire, published “A Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue.” Complaining that the ...

(ABC4) – According to wordgenius.com, 9 words are going to be removed from the dictionary. However, all-encompassing dictionaries like Oxford or Merriam-Webster’s will likely be marked “archaic,” ...

On June 27, the Daily Utah Chronicle published an op-ed by the Chronicle’s copy desk on how AP Style disadvantages Black language. While this issue is certainly worthy of discussion, the AP ...

In the national conversation taking place about systemic racism in the United States, one important element should not be overlooked: linguistic prejudice. African American English, like other ...

In the study of human thinking, two main research questions can be asked: Descriptive Q: What is human thinking like? Normative Q: What ought human thinking be like? For decades, these two questions ...

Decades before the rise of social media, polarisation plagued discussions about language. By and large, it still does. Everyone who cares about the topic is officially required to take one of two ...

The Oxford English Dictionary tells us the truth about our language. It's not a prescriptivist dictionary, it's descriptivist, embracing slang of all sorts You can save this article by registering for ...