“O dear Miss Mutch, leave down your crutch.” He cried in thoughtless terror. Short shrift she gave. Above his grave: HERE ...

One of the most significant shifts is the acceptance of they as a singular pronoun. It replaces clunky constructions like he or she and is both grammatically sound and inclusive. Think: “Each person ...

Clare Leonard '08.5 may indeed be the only person under the age of 50 who enjoys enforces the split-infinitives "rule," but she writes, in her letter ("Poor writing can be found just about anywhere," ...

Not long ago a pained letter came from a high school senior in a Midwestern state. At her earnest request, she remains nameless and stateless. She wrote: "In an assigned editorial about the war in ...

Some comments that I recently received from a Winston-Salem reader relate indirectly and coincidentally to Chief Justice John Roberts' flubbing his lines when he administered the presidential oath of ...