We English speakers have been terribly insecure about our ability to communicate in our native tongue for at least 200 years, if the number of books aiming to correct errors in our speech and writing ...

Language is a funny thing. If you're reading this sentence, for example, there's a good chance that you speak and understand English perfectly well. But there's also a good chance that your English is ...

Gianni Rodari used puns, topsy-turvyism and zany names to invent stories for children and help children invent their own. From “The Grammar of Fantasy.”Credit...Matthew Forsythe Supported by By Mac ...

Books about language usage, including “Eats, Shoots & Leaves,” by Lynne Truss, and “Woe Is I,” by Patricia T. O’Conner, constitute a metaliterature, in which the writing must prove the writer’s ...