I grew up in a family of people who had a lot to feel bad about. As the middle child, it was my job to make them feel better. “Don’t feel guilty about feeding us Twinkies for breakfast every day. When ...
Everyone knows that the holidays are a great time to show your good will to man. But they’re also a great time to show your backside. From spiked eggnog to shameless re-gifting to caroling “the Lord ...
Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Last week we dealt with some possessive questions when there were plural possessors. Now we’ll deal with other possessives ...
Could it be that these are animals that were hunted, fished, or herded and that there was a convention that used the singular as a sort of generic plural when going after these creatures for sport or ...
Possessives shouldn't be difficult. In many languages, they're not. In French for example, to talk about the car belonging to Robert, you just say "the car of Robert": la voiture de Robert. Spanish ...
For more than a millennium after the fall of Rome, educated Europeans were distinguished by their knowledge of Latin. One of the three subjects of the trivium—the basic tier of a classical education, ...
There is a myriad of ways we can express quantities in English, but there are just a couple words that are much in dispute. Wait. Should that be "there are myriad ways" and "just a couple of words"?
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