On a light note, if you are conversant with the word ‘shokolokobangoshe’, we probably went to primary school at around the same time. It is one of the few things I remember about that wonderful time ...

This is the Grammar Guy column, a new weekly feature written by Curtis Honeycutt. I’ve been getting into native perennial gardening this year. Of all the plants I’m growing, I love milkweed the most.

Figures of speech are used in many kinds of texts, including legal texts. The late Justice Scalia saw "speech" and "press" in the First Amendment as "a sort of synecdoche" (p. 38 here). And several ...

Eloquence is a trait valued by debate team coaches but not necessarily needed for the White House. Though their supporters will always defend them, George Washington and George W. Bush are just two of ...