Grammar

St. Patrick's Day is a holiday in Ireland designed to celebrate Patrick, the patron saint of the nation, who introduced...

It's always nice when I see that someone has visited my blog after doing a search about a grammar-related question....

We all have our little grammatical pet peeves. One of mine is the errant use of the phrase "due to." I learned to despise this little two word monstrosity during the summer before my senior year of high school, when I attended a journalism workshop at USC.

The 8-vote lead of Mitt Romney over Rick Santorum in the Iowa Caucus Tuesday night led to some big headlines. Among them, there was a tiny little word featured, as part of a common phrase, that we normally never see written out.

Oxford Dictionaries teams named squeezed middle the Word of the Year for 2011. In a year in which the Occupy...

In the article about the news anchor who had to apologize for remarks about Santa Claus, there was this interesting...

The Oxford Comma, also known as the serial comma, is no longer being recommended by the University of Oxford's own...

You hear about a blog you haven't visited before and you have reason to believe there might be content that's...

This morning, while scanning the morning news programs, I heard a reporter use what I consider to be one of...

Each April, we debate whether the first day of the month should be written as "April Fool's Day" or "April Fools'...

It's no wonder this county's educational system is in such turmoil, or that the average IQ seems to be going...

The Associated Press has updated its stylebook recently, removing the previously-required hyphen from e-mail, finally catching up to most of...

Today at work, I paused from my marketing duties to send my annual reminder about St. Patrick's Day. You know...

There are a few days of the year that I genuinely dread, and this particular day — more specifically, this evening — is one of them. There are two primary reasons, one of which is the bickering and inconsistency I'll see coming out of newsrooms across the country.

After a little rant on my Facebook page about due to, a phrase used incorrectly almost every time it is...

Okay, grammar fans, it's time for another quick lesson. Remember back to your grade school days when you learned all...