Explore ongoing changes to American and British English, including shifts in regional ... with schools neglecting grammar and the media mangling it. Professional linguists do not see decline.

that is created daily by millions of blunders and inaccuracies in grammar, syntax, idiom, metaphor, logic, and common sense.... In the history of modern English there is no period in which such ...

Ellen Jovin’s “Rebel with a Clause” brings grammar to life with humor, curiosity, and a traveling Grammar Table.

The post office is about a hundred yards down this road on the left. ~ Is that two blocks away in American English? ~ Two or three, I'd say. The speed limit in towns and built-up areas is normally ...

English sailors and pirates all came together on Ocracoke Island in North Carolina to create the only American dialect that is not identified as American. I'd never been called a "dingbatter ...

but English is a Germanic language,” she tells one table visitor who responds with a delighted “Shut up!” Ms. Jovin signed autographs after the show. She was wearing her fanciest grammar ...

Once thing is clearer - American English has become the dominant form of the language. So I’m setting out on a journey now to see what’s happening to English in the United States. What answers ...