Americans like being the best at things. We’re the best at baseball, jazz, freedom, national parks — pretty much anything Ken Burns has already covered. Yes, living in the Land of Opportunity is ...

One of the first things new copy editors learn is that they should change the contraction ‘til to the word till, or, in more formal contexts, until. Then, if they’re anything like me, they spend the ...

This is the Grammar Guy column, a weekly feature written by Curtis Honeycutt. Babies pretty much can’t do anything. We have a one-week-old and all he does is cry, eat, sleep, burp and poop; then he ...

Maybe LeBron James should have gone to college. The Miami Heat superstar admitted to reporters Monday that he didn’t know what the word “contraction” meant after recently advocating for the NBA to do ...