Hopefully, the legislators, parents, school administrators and “school marms” who continue to preach teaching “proper English” will read “There Is No ‘Proper English’” (Review, March 14). For over 100 ...

Like recent letter-writer Joseph Koss, I went to grammar school many years ago. I conjugated verbs correctly and diagrammed sentences perfectly and with great enthusiasm. I was a word nerd, getting ...

Proper English isn’t correct English. At least, it’s not the only correct English in town. It’s more like a flavor. Or a style. It’s the type of English used in academic and literary as well as ...

What is the good of books on “proper English?” If you felt self-conscious about the way you spoke in the late nineteenth century, you might throw yourself on the mercy of Oliver Bell Bunce’s guide, ...

Study reveals whether social media users know the difference between formal and informal English A friend who teaches middle school English starts the school year with a lesson on how to e-mail ...

Simon Heffer: There is such a thing as correct English. It is the standard form of communication used when one English speaker or writer wishes to ensure that he or she is not misunderstood by another ...

If, as Laurie Anderson sang, language is a virus, then English is the common cold. Already ubiquitous — English has an estimated 1.5 billion speakers — it's only growing more so, given its status in ...