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A correspondent writes to say that he caught himself saying All I find is idiots , and wondered whether it shouldn't have been All I fin...

A correspondent writes to ask why we can say Give it to whoever has the money alongside Give it to him who has the money . Shouldn't ...

A correspondent writes to say that he has had his writing criticised by his boss for 'faulty parallelism' and he wonders what it is....

A correspondent from Finland writes to say that 'in a recent English test, the pupils were supposed to demonstrate their ability to use ...

A correspondent writes that he is worried about the potential ambiguity in such sentences as (the first one from Graham Greene): (1) He did ...

A correspondent writes to ask where the intensifying use of well , as in well good , comes from. He comments: ' I certainly do not use i...

A journalist writes to ask about tween-speak, which he defines as slang spoken by people between the age of 8 and 12. Will it affect the Eng...