I am in complete sympathy with Ellen Jovin and her confounding prickly participles and commas, (”Confounding commas, prickly participles,” Ideas, July 24). It seems as though hardly anyone has command ...

Regarding Joan Webber’s recent letter on participles and commas, wherein she claims that people misuse “existential,” she is plainly mistaken (”Prickly participles? Speaking proper English is ...

“LET’S talk properly.” Tom Sherrington had little reason to think that his blog post, so titled, would cause controversy. A British consultant and former head teacher, he had called on educators to ...

2001-07-29 04:00:00 PDT Singapore-- Wah! Government say Singlish no good, must learn how to speak proper English. It a bit the difficult. How can? In their latest initiative to perfect society, ...