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Grammar
July 19, 2016
Lauren Collister
Why Does Using a Period in a Text Message Make You Sound Insincere or Angry?
December 4, 2013
Hillary Kelly
The Best Response to Grammar Nazis, Ever
Stephen Fry nails it
November 25, 2013
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Ben Crair
The Period Is Pissed
When did our plainest punctuation mark become so aggressive?
Subscribers Only
October 31, 2013
Hillary Kelly
9 Made-Up Words That Perfectly Describe The Human Condition
October 1, 2013
John McWhorter
The Foolish, Malicious War on Apostrophe's
August 9, 2013
John McWhorter
A Quixotic History of Doomed Efforts to Fix Spelling
June 18, 2013
Alec MacGillis
Bobby Jindal, Meet Strunk And White
May 17, 2013
John McWhorter
Freedom From, Freedom To
Yes, you can end a sentence in a preposition
May 6, 2013
Paul Lukas
Smart Quotes are Killing the Apostrophe
How a software innovation doomed the inverted comma
April 30, 2013
John McWhorter
The Royal They
Fighting against the tyranny of pronouns
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