‘The’ is the most commonly used word in English. ‘The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog’ uses all 26 letters of the English alphabet and is called a pangram. Most average adult English speakers ...

HAPPY National Grammar Day, everyone. Today's offering is only marginally on grammar. We've asked "What is grammar anyway?" here at Johnson. The layperson would almost certainly answer "those ...

GRAMMAR is a strange and wonderful thing. It is also fuzzy. At least the word "grammar" is. So fuzzy, in fact, that linguists rarely invoke it, other than in the broad meaning of "language". They tend ...

University of Liverpool provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. Sticklers beware. The British Library is hosting it’s English Grammar Day, a day to finely split hairs over split ...

Rob Drummond receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust. Project grant RPG-2014-059 - 'Expressing inner-city youth identity through multicultural urban British English'. Language pedants who take ...

Of the several friends I have doing the online dating thing, one of their biggest complaints, aside from the on slot of inappropriate messages from men, is the poor grammar in a lot of the profiles.