Keir Starmer promised change, but delivered more of the same – can his successor do better at managing the difference between ...

In 1995 this newspaper sent me to interview the eminent British linguist David Crystal, who was in Sydney to promote his Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language. As we sat down for lunch, he ...

A play about the memories we hope we never forget and the ones we know we should will be performed at Buxton Fringe. Split ...

THE first element of good style is clearness, and this may or may not be combined with literary elegance. It is usual to regard a split infinitive as a sign of indifference to pure English, yet this ...

When it comes to the English language, I'm not an anything-goes kind of guy. If I were, I wouldn't have written a book called How to Not Write Bad: The Most Common Writing Errors and the Best Ways to ...

The new documentary "Rebel with a Clause" opens Thursday at Digital Gym Cinema. The film follows Ellen Jovin as she takes her pop-up grammar table on a road trip across 50 states, navigating dangling ...

In the twee world of Bookish, a new crime drama set in post war London, being well read is the ultimate weapon. By Pippa Bailey Oh, that we could all live in the world of Bookish, where the secret to ...

For a couple of decades, Ellen Jovin co-ran a communication company with her husband to help executives better express themselves. Then, in 2018, outside a subway station in New York, she set up a ...

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