The Oxford comma. “Ask” instead of “aks.” There, their, and they’re. The legitimacy of “ain’t” and “y’all.” These are familiar, if sometimes contentious, issues in the usage of the English language.

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The English language has a lot of weird spelling, grammar, and pronunciation rules. Words that sound and are spelled the same can have two different or even opposite meanings. Tricks like "I before E ...

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. That’s the charge leveled by one reader, J., who responds to my grammar ...

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Unlike the carefully scripted dialogue found in most books and movies, the language of everyday interaction tends to be messy and incomplete, full of false starts, interruptions, and people talking ...

IS AMERICA RUINING English or giving it new life? Most of this old transatlantic debate concerns words. Is elevator an improvement on lift? Why say transportation when transport will do? Sometimes it ...

Now that we’re all out of English class, you might be asking yourself: do I still have to follow all of those strict grammar rules? The answer is “no.” We’re splitting infinitives, running amok with ...

It’s a perpetual lament: The purity of the English language is under assault. These days we are told that our ever-texting teenagers can’t express themselves in grammatical sentences. The media ...

You may have heard about the marvel that is the Generative Pre-Trained Transformer, more commonly referred to as GPT-3. GPT-3 is a “large language” artificial intelligence algorithm that has achieved ...