Attorneys deal with laws for a living. Bureaucrats work with regulations. Restaurateurs contend with heat, spice and the irregularity of natural ingredients. I work with words and, occasionally, ...

Dozens of serial killers have terrorized American communities over the decades, from H. H. Holmes becoming “the Beast of Chicago” in the 19th century to “the Hillside Stranglers” inciting fear across ...

One of Vampire Weekend’s biggest hits begins with the question “Who gives a f—k about an Oxford comma?” It’s a fair question, and the answer is simple: It me. I GAF about the Oxford comma, because ...

After widely rolling out the “Font size” setting last week, the latest Gboard for Android update lets you hide the period and comma keys. Under Gboard Settings > Preferences, you’ll find new toggles ...

Currently the wrangle assumes that if example is a string that it's a user shorthand for several examples. This isn't always true, sometimes the example is meant to contain commas. Here's a workaround ...

Next week I start teaching again (the quarter system—I know, I know). What can I say to a group of upper-level, mostly first-gen college creative writing majors staring down high unemployment, a ...

ST. PAUL — The Minnesota Supreme Court created doubt Wednesday, Aug. 6, over the viability of a decades-old state law that makes it a crime to possess certain firearms that lack serial numbers. In ...

The following guidelines represent Leeds-specific styles and common sticking points. As language itself is always evolving, issues of style are also in constant flux. Our goal is to provide clear, ...

Growing up on Washington state’s Mercer Island in the 1960s and ’70s, the writer Caroline Fraser got used to hearing people puzzle over why the Pacific Northwest was such a hotbed of infamous serial ...

A grammar maven and a documentary chronicling her adventures both come to Tulsa this weekend. The documentary “Rebel with a Clause” is about one woman, a table and grammatical queries from people ...

Long Island Serial Killer suspect Rex Heuermann was charged with seven murders as of December 2024 James Carbone/Newsday RM via Getty In 2010, human remains were found in Gilgo Beach on Long Island in ...