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You might have seen T-shirts that announce "Silently correcting your grammar." No matter your age or education, there are times when most of us feel uncertain about our use of spoken and written language.
Alissa Wetherbee of Ellsworth, Maine, thinks (correctly, in my opinion) the word 'lumberjill' should appear in the dictionary right next to 'lumberjack.'
Ellen Jovin visited South Bend in 2019 and set up her Grammar Table on South Michigan Street. Her book "Rebel With a Clause" includes her visit.
A lively new book tackles the Oxford comma, the “unjustified vilification” of “me,” and other language matters.
From the column: "It is about the ritual of gentle, dorky debate with a shared sense of purpose, focused on this thing we have in common: language. We all poop and we all punctuate."