There are two ways to write a letter to the editor or you state or federal representative or to make a speech: Informative and Persuasive. Are you old enough to remember the cop show, Dragnet with Detective Sergeant Joe Friday (Jack Webb) and his partner Officer Bill Gannon (Harry Morgan)? If not, you really need […]

My partner gave me a coffee mug that boldly states, “I am silently correcting your grammar.” As a linguist, one thing that causes me to cringe is the use of anyways. I was taught that there is no such thing as a plural of anyway. However, anyways has made its way into our oral language […]