Now that the recently-senile and always-bungling old pope is at last gone, perhaps...

The shameful deportation of Yusuf Islam, formerly known as Cat Stevens, has received...

Do you have a sentence that uses "effect" & "affect" properly? For example, I remember...

From the BBC's web site today 'Liberal black Congressman Charles Rangel said of...

(Mailed to the International Herald Tribune and posted to alt.usage.english.) The...

If I am writing an article about paper money, to a world-wide readership, including...

An article in [link]/ , a highly entertaining site, discussed the difficulty of finding...

"That's not the way we talk" is the headline above an article printed on today's...

I'm working on a Wikipedia article on the phrase "blue-plate special." Current version...

I want to write an article about terms for people (particularly negative ones) that...

Greetings. I work in a German research centre, and as one of only two native English...

From a recent NY Times article: To make her point that such infections may have been...

There's a scandal currently rocking the globe involving the London office of the...

An interesting article about Rightpondia in today's Guardian: [link] Comment An...

Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage says, under "split infinitive" The...

There are news stories out about a new 700-page "Hippie Dictionary" edited by John...

Off-topic or not, this is from an article in today's Wall Street Journal, on-line...

[link] or "NEW ORLEANS An 8-year-old girl was suspended for nine days for bringing...

A person from the Ukraine has told a friend of mine that the country no longer takes...

It's a while since I heard this metaphor cited, but it has had real currency in British...