Grammar

If you’ve ever heard someone refer to a person as ‘making a beeline’ toward something, that’s a great example of an idiom.

There are plenty of times in English the wrong word somehow feels more right. Pronoun-Gerund agreement can be just such a challenge.

When you're looking for one word to cover a range of wintertime precipitation from freezing rain to snow, would you choose wintery or wintry?

Here's a grammar question from the city of Denver. Is 'council member' one word or two? Sometimes, even a style guide can't help much.

When the American flag is lowered to the mid-point of flagpoles to honor someone who died, should we call it half-mast or half-staff?

Every year, as our language evolves, new words and new definitions of old words are added to the dictionary. Here are my 2024 favorites.

The latest update of approved words by the National Spelling Bee raised eyebrows when it included the word 'womyn,' an alternate of 'women.'

The Jewish holiday of Hanukkah falls generally between Thanksgiving and Christmas. But calendars disagree on how to spell it.

Can you name a word that best describes the current state of affairs? Merriam-Webster thinks the word 'polarization' fits that bill nicely.

The Oxford Dictionary made its selection for the 2024 Word of the Year. In case you hadn't guessed, it's 'brain rot.'

It's that time of year when people will make a simple error when trying to make their last name plural on Christmas cards.

Dictionary.com has selected its 2024 Word of the Year, but the word doesn't necessarily mean what you think it does.

As much as we might like to ditch the little mark that causes so many errors, I'm afraid the English language is stuck with apostrophes.

The term ‘echo chamber’ has been around for a long time. But in recent years, it’s taken on a different political meaning.

English is a complicated language and sometimes might inadvertently mix up syllables while speaking. Those slips have a name: spoonerisms.

You've probably heard 'Roger that' in military or law enforcement radio traffic (in real life or in TV or film). Here's what it means.