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Sportscaster Erin Andrews was talking on the Fox NFL pregame show the other day, and I heard her say someone was “fixiated” on something. This actually is a pretty good word for someone… ...
The local police have not arrested these grammar police -- they may be doing God's work, or at the least the work of a middle school teacher.
Roy Peter Clark of the Poynter Institute says we ought to remind ourselves that language lives, breathes and learns more as it goes along. He advises professionals to write carefully, but not ...
National Public Radio not long ago asked its listeners and NPR.org readers to nominate the “most misused word or phrase.” It got a tremendous response and ended up producing a top 10 li… ...
That I will execute... The grammar crime that Roberts believed the Founding Fathers had committed was splitting a verb phrase, “will execute,” with an adverb, “faithfully”.
With New Blog, Retired South Florida Reporter Becomes Chief Of The 'Grammar Police' WLRN Public Media | By Christine DiMattei Published July 30, 2021 at 6:00 AM EDT Listen • 4:35 ...
New, harder tests for primary school children have raised questions about the purpose of learning grammar.
The U.S. Park Police failed to record radio communications from its administrative and special event channels for a period of about two years that included the tumultuous protests in June 2020 ...
Two self-styled vigilantes against typos who defaced a more than 60-year-old sign at Grand Canyon National Park were sentenced to probation and banned from national parks for a year.
Ellen Jovin has toured her fold-out table across all 50 states, answering strangers’ grammar questions. Her goal? To bring people together through conversations about language.
Why we love the language police An eccentric British grammar scold named N.M. Gwynne wants to take English back to the good old days, and readers are eating it up ...
The Times obtained District of Columbia police radio communications and synchronized them with footage from the scene to show in real time how officers tried and failed to stop the attack on the U ...