I am in complete sympathy with Ellen Jovin and her confounding prickly participles and commas, (”Confounding commas, prickly participles,” Ideas, July 24). It seems as though hardly anyone has command ...

2001-07-29 04:00:00 PDT Singapore-- Wah! Government say Singlish no good, must learn how to speak proper English. It a bit the difficult. How can? In their latest initiative to perfect society, ...

What is the good of books on “proper English?” If you felt self-conscious about the way you spoke in the late nineteenth century, you might throw yourself on the mercy of Oliver Bell Bunce’s guide, ...

In this week's New Yorker we learn of two competing schools of language scholars: The stodgy, old-school prescriptivists, who think there should be set rules for speaking and writing English, and the ...

HARLEM, Manhattan (WABC) -- The message from one school was clear - that students had to learn and speak proper English. However, there is controversy over the way one charter school in Harlem ...

Regarding Joan Webber’s recent letter on participles and commas, wherein she claims that people misuse “existential,” she is plainly mistaken (”Prickly participles? Speaking proper English is ...

COULTER: One thing that I know, because I know people who know her, is when Sarah Palin first burst on the scene, the political scene, she wanted to have a meeting with Palin, because she saw raw ...

“LET’S talk properly.” Tom Sherrington had little reason to think that his blog post, so titled, would cause controversy. A British consultant and former head teacher, he had called on educators to ...

Speaking Spanish and "proper" English are not mutually exclusive. A few weeks ago, I struck up a conversation with someone at an airport. After a couple of hours of chatting, my phone rang and it was ...