This Monday, July 3, I’m an invited speaker at English Grammar Day, an annual event involving nonspecialist talks and discussion on aspects of English, held at the British Library in London, and ...

Arts Uproars: Open, Shut, Fired, Down for the Count, and Nowhere to Be Found Manchán Magan, Keeper of the Irish Language Audio By Carbonatix In an op-ed for the New York Times this past Sunday, ...

More than 100 friends, students and colleagues were in attendance Tuesday night to hear Dr. Robert Hamblin speak at the third annual Dr. Robert W. Hamblin Lecture on the campus of Southeast Missouri ...

A Georgetown University English professor’s lecture on the cultural and literary significance of Truman Capote’s novel “In Cold Blood” was featured on Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network (C-SPAN), ...

Preparing for government exams is more than just memorising facts or practising reasoning questions. Language, especially English grammar, plays a crucial role in determining success. Whether it’s ...

Not speaking English is a figurative wall that obstructs millions of immigrants in California from taking full advantage of the opportunities in their new home. Although there are plenty of places ...

It may seem from some of my recent newsletters — championing “they” as a singular pronoun and “me” as a subject pronoun — that there’s something about being a linguist that makes one strangely ...

CBSE Class 9 English Grammar Modals MCQs: Modals form an important part of CBSE Class 9 English Grammar, and questions based on this topic carry significant weightage in the exam. Modals are auxiliary ...

A letter signed by members of the Princeton community and delivered to the English department by Alexandra Orbuch ’25 calls on the department to condemn the Feb. 8 Edward W. Said ’57 Memorial Lecture ...

Letter-for-letter, no part of speech gets people more worked up than pronouns do. Linguistic history is dotted with eruptions of pronoun rage. Right now, the provocation is the gender-neutral pronouns ...