Many years ago, back when I used to answer my landline telephone, I found myself in a conundrum. I realized that, when a caller asked, “May I speak to June, please?” I would answer, “This is she.” But ...

HERE’S a basic grammar question that baffled an adequately English-savvy friend of mine: Why are the nominative case and subjective case lumped as just a single case in English? Plus the objective ...

My husband has a smart phone. We go out to dinner, hear a song playing in the restaurant and within three minutes know the name of the song, the artist, the movies it was featured in, and which drug ...