I was somewhat astonished to hear a US Senator from Oklahoma say, "Our committee had drawed a different conclusion." We all know English is a tough language for non-native speakers, and in this ...

I put in a query to an AI chatbot to rephrase the rest of my letter in the manner of the Inuit people of Alaska, which I hope underscores my point: “Hmm, this Trump paper-law saying English must be ...

With reference to Michael Poynor’s letter “Three-letter word strikes chord for lovers of ‘la langue française’” (December 4), English could do with a neuter pronoun. “They” does not do it, and “he/she ...

Bookmark this story if you frequently play Wordle. It includes a ranking of the most commonly used letters in the English language. How about that Wordle puzzle on May 29? The five-letter answer in ...

You might be thinking that there's no way the ultimate shade can come from a lesson in grammar, but then you'd be wrong. This White House letter corrected and returned by an English teacher is A+ ...

English is becoming one of the most common languages worldwide, yet silent letters in words present a challenge for many learners. Silent letters help distinguish homophones, but result from borrowing ...

Like recent letter-writer Joseph Koss, I went to grammar school many years ago. I conjugated verbs correctly and diagrammed sentences perfectly and with great enthusiasm. I was a word nerd, getting ...