In the late 1990s, a friend told me she had used the word “exponentially” in a debate with her brother-in-law. “That’s not a word!” her brother-in-law insisted. “Of course it is,” my friend replied.

“It makes me mad when people say ‘literally’ when they mean ‘figuratively’ as it does sound stupid and confusing,” a poster on Quora wrote recently. “Is this normal?” In the replies, the top answer is ...

What’s the difference between emoticons and emoji? How do I make product names (like the iPhone 7 or 6s) plural? That’s a sample of questions that Mignon Fogarty, a.k.a. Grammar Girl, answers on a ...

A handy list of links to resources for teaching questions Stage 5: Buying a ticket. Grammar Tip: Questions and question words. Stage 4: At the supermarket. Grammar Tip: Looking for things: hay and ...

Unlike the carefully scripted dialogue found in most books and movies, the language of everyday interaction tends to be messy and incomplete, full of false starts, interruptions, and people talking ...