Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Forming a plural is pretty easy, right? You just add an “s” to something. Unless, of course, it’s a word that already ends ...

Can you spot the grammatical error here? We’ve all committed this common punctuation mistake when making last names plural—and it’s even easier to make now in ...

Before you slip that letter into the mail, find out how to properly write plural last names. Here, etiquette and grammar experts explain. Don’t worry, you don’t need a degree in English to get it ...

The word ‘plural’ comes from the Old French ‘plurel’ which means ‘more than one’. A noun is a word used to identify something.There are a lot of nouns.There are many patterns to look out for when you ...

We all laughed when former Vice President Dan Quayle had trouble spelling “potato” a while back, but some of us might have trouble spelling its plural form. Is it “potatos” or “potatoes”? Here’s a ...

Every year in this column, I give tips for how to avoid the most common writing mistakes in holiday greetings and invitations. And every year, I’m reminded of just how influential I’m not as people ...

English spelling can be frustrating and confusing, but there are things you can do to help make the task of getting it right more manageable. Here are some rules of thumb-and their exceptions-that you ...

If you were to send my family a letter, you’d have no problem writing out the envelope. My surname is Andersen, so the etiquette rules for writing a plural last name are pretty simple: Just add s! But ...