I recently fielded questions about two subject-verb agreement errors that readers noticed in the media. One was heard on an NPR program. The other was committed by, um, a columnist who should have ...

The singular pronoun “they” is the word of the decade, according to The American Dialect Society. Formed more than 130 years ago, the American Dialect Society, along with organizations like ...

A reader named Judy recently wrote to say it bothers her to hear "None were there" in place of "None was there." Then a reader named Richard noticed this news headline, "Disabled couple win right to ...

Some sneaky words out there look like plurals but take a singular verb. "Whereabouts" is one of those words, and here's an example from Monday's front page: Gadhafi’s defenders quickly melted away as ...

(Reuters) - U.S. linguists on Friday chose "they" as their Word of the Decade, recognising the growing use of third-person plural pronouns as a singular form to refer to people who identify their ...

Formed more than 130 years ago, the American Dialect Society, along with organizations like Merriam-Webster dictionary, have chosen relevant words to represent a year a whole. In December, ...