Do you remember being taught you should never start your sentences with "And" or "But"? What if I told you that your teachers were wrong and there are lots of other so-called grammar rules that we've ...

Listen to Lexicon Valley Episode No. 32: The Burden of Being Right Subscribe in iTunes ∙ RSS feed ∙ Download ∙ Play in another tab When it comes to language, everyone’s a little bit prescriptivist.

IN the last two weeks, we have been talking about language standards, standard language and linguistic prescriptivism. Besides one's (English) language teacher and a language editor, an average person ...

To understand why we’ve been getting it wrong, we need to know a little about the history of grammar teaching. Grammar is how we organise our sentences in order to communicate meaning to others. Those ...