Are you a word nerd? A lover of bon mots? You’re in the right place. Whether the thesaurus is your friend or foe (your confidante or nemesis), it’s a book to keep on hand (hereabouts or accessible) so ...

This is the Grammar Guy column, a weekly feature written by Curtis Honeycutt. My daughter likes to ask me what my name is. I say “Dad.” Pointing to her nose, she asks, “What’s this?” I reply, “Nose.” ...

Nouns are by far the largest category of words in English. They signify all kinds of physical things both living and inanimate. They also signify imagined things like ‘a ghost’; and ideas or concepts, ...

“I’ll dress warm,” I wrote to friends recently in a group email about a get-together on the patio of a local café. What happened next will sound familiar to every careful user of the English language: ...

Nouns are by far the largest category of words in English. They signify all kinds of physical things both living and inanimate. They also signify imagined things like ‘a ghost’; and ideas or concepts, ...

You can spell check in Microsoft Word by using its built-in spelling and grammar checker. If enabled, it will automatically underline spelling and grammatical errors ...