Grammarlandia

The annual family card can be a minefield of misspellings. Should it be signed from the Jones’s ? From the Jones’   ? From the Jones’s famil...

Writers often confuse e.g. and i.e. The first means “for example” and the second means “that is.” My parents think I should pursue a mor...

How do we describe people less well off than us without being insulting? The poor smacks of Victorian condescension. Working class is comm...

In the introduction to this series, I talked about race and terminology (e.g., African American vs. Black , Indigenous vs. Native America...

We’ve all read something like this: Despite being confined to a wheelchair, Michonne is the world’s foremost expert on aquarium snails. ...

There’s a lot to cover here, from avoiding sexism to gender identity to the LGBTQ rainbow. So let’s get to work! Sexism in Language Most...

Using inclusive language, also called bias-free language , means choosing words that don’t exclude any marginalized people. We like to think...