Bryan A. Garner, the founder of LawProse, is the author of “Garner’s Modern American Usage” and the editor in chief of Black’s Law Dictionary. Robert Lane Greene Robert Lane Greene, an international ...

Listen to Lexicon Valley Episode No. 32: The Burden of Being Right Subscribe in iTunes ∙ RSS feed ∙ Download ∙ Play in another tab When it comes to language, everyone’s a little bit prescriptivist.

Tue, August 28, 2012 Published on Aug. 28, 2012 Published on 2012-08-28T05:00:00+07:00 t was early in the morning Indonesian time and almost iftar time in Madison when one of my colleagues asked me ...

"He always gives 110 per cent", a commentator says of a sportsman on the radio. I find myself shouting at the speaker. "100 per cent!" I grumble. "It's mathematically impossible to go higher!" Why am ...