Yuiko Shimazu remembers when she barely spoke English and the difficulty she had in America after moving from Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. Now a Bridge Elementary School teacher, it took her two years to ...

Over the years, I’ve seen a lot of “most common grammar mistakes” lists on the internet. And, over the years, I’ve learned they’re almost always wrong. That is, in every published list of the grammar ...

Have you ever read a sentence that just didn’t work but you couldn’t put your finger on what was wrong? Have you ever written one? Reader-unfriendly sentences are everywhere. Many you can fix just by ...

In our new series, Michael ponders some of the imponderables of modern life. In our first episode, linguist Sali A. Tagliamonte author of Teen Talk: The Language of Adolescents, tackles our collective ...