A query last week suggested I might take part in an interview about artificial intelligence. I demurred. I do not consciously use AI, and I...

I recently discovered online that a liquor store had opened for business in Flemingsburg, Kentucky. And there's a winery there, too! It's as...

A crime has been committed. A person has been robbed, assaulted, or shot. The police report of the crime says that officers are seeking to ...

Among those who labor on holidays are writers and editors at daily newspapers. To celebrate them on Labor Day, I repost my classifications ...

If you are old enough, you were probably taught the "due to" crotchet.   For the youngsters in the gallery, due  was only ever supposed to b...

I sued to teach my editing students at Loyola Maryland a nice little word, dilemma . It's ultimately from the Greek, di , "two," and lēmma ...

General Dynamics opened a Texas factory to churn out artillery shells for Ukraine, but the machines kept breaking. Robot arms smashed into things. Hunks of metal crashed to the floor. There was even a...

The porch at our front door is small, holding a round table, a small side table, and four chairs. That's the capacity. When I worked, this ...

This week someone on Twitter quoted a tweet from a fellow journalist: "Not to be dramatic, but the day @APStylebook made it okay to say 'ove...

Note to the reader: This post is entirely personal; you may well choose to skip it. Subsequent posts will return to issues of grammar, usa...