Many of today's grammar rules can be traced to the opinions of one 18th century writer.
Good news for those who feel stuffy saying 'whom.'
'Poets laureate'? 'Court-martials'? The curious history of postpositive adjectives in English.
Why don't they call it the Merriam-Webster comma?
How an ancient philosophical movement devoted to the pursuit of virtue came to describe eye-rolling criticism.
These people needed a computer
A simple trick to keep them separate