With the ongoing push by Hyundai to impose “Live Brilliant” on us as a standard part of English,* it is time to use that grammatically incorrect phrase to make a point that smaller businesses without ...

Pedants, rejoice – National Grammar Day is here! But let’s think carefully about what exactly it is we’re celebrating Yippee (or groan)! It’s National Grammar Day again. You didn’t know? Me neither, ...

Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from ...

We live in a world where increasingly, people communicate through writing. This is interesting, because prior to our dependence on computers and the creation of online social networks, most folks ...

Language is a uniquely human attribute, one of the things that makes us what we are. We are all born with the faculty to use it and all languages conform to the same basic patterns and structures. The ...

Why do so many people care about grammar and spelling? Seriously. There is very little in this world that warrants text-based perfection. Are you writing the copy for ...

Good grammar may have came and went. Maybe you've winced at the decline of the past participle. Or folks writing and saying "he had sank" and "she would have went." Perhaps it was the singer Gotye ...

When I think of March, I don’t think of basketball or the infamous “Ides.” No, for me, it’s a celebration of good grammar. After all, March 4 is National Grammar Day in the U.S. (the U.K. couldn’t be ...