I love North Carolina dialects. I have one myself — western Piedmont. I ran across this nifty site today. Take… Read more »
Posts By: Pam Nelson
Style guides: 50 years of Strunk and White
Strunk and White’s "The Elements of Style," one of the most famous books about grammar and usage, was published 50… Read more »
Word usage: We just want to celebrate
A reader sent this note to our editors today: You make this mistake almost every time a local team wins… Read more »
Words that mean something bad has happened
Those who report the news often apply labels to terrible or urgent events: tragedy, disaster, crisis, emergency. This article was… Read more »
Back from hiatus: Triangle Grammar Guide quiz
I’ve been thinking about how people learn English as a second language and studying inflection, including the way we make… Read more »
Word watch: detainee and combatant
A headline from today’s newspaper, "U.S. drops ‘enemy combatant’ label; detainees remain," made me curious about the suffixes in "combatant"… Read more »
Pronouns without gender
Some have long lamented that English has no gender-neutral pronoun to use in a construction such as this: Everyone needs… Read more »
Happy National Grammar Day
This is National Grammar Day. Perhaps this is a good day to try the Triangle Grammar Guide quizzes, if you… Read more »
Get ready for National Grammar Day
National Grammar Day is Wednesday (March 4). A day set aside for promoting correct (or, at least, standard) English grammar… Read more »
Does this make me a grammarista?
New words pop up all the time. They are a window into our culture and our times. Faith Dwight, the… Read more »