In the course of drafting his story, Chandler was no less annoyed by Hollywood than by a new unlikely foe: an Atlantic copy editor, who’d shown the temerity to fix a split infinitive in his text.

Even for those who make a career out of loving books, sharing the right ones with the right people can take years of practice.

To play this video you need to enable JavaScript. I look forward to hearing from you. Yours faithfully, Dan. Admit to doing something wrong: admit + -ing. Admit means 'tell the truth about doing ...

You’ve probably heard the old story about the pedant who dared to tinker with Winston Churchill’s writing because the great man had ended a sentence with a preposition. Churchill’s scribbled response: ...

Romeyka is a dialect of Greek spoken by small communities in north-eastern Turkey, notable for its connection to the ancient Greek language ...

The present perfect with 'for' and 'since' Comparatives and superlatives ...