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Correspondents (of the radio kind) have been keeping the phone hot this week in the wake of a report claiming that spelling mistakes on web...

A correspondent reports something he was reading in The Times this week: 1356 BST: Jemima Khan has a complaint about the police investigati...

A correspondent writes with an enquiry that needs to be quoted in full: 'This morning I tried simultaneously to brush my teeth and talk....

A correspondent writes to ask about the past tense of the verb to text . He uses texted but is aware that many people say text , as in She ...

A correspondent from Shakespeare's Globe writes to ask whether bottom ever meant 'posterior' in Elizabethan England. He has not...

Some correspondents have been contributing to my last post incognito. It was a post about a point of usage in which, it began to emerge, the...

A correspondent writes to ask if he can say both ‘Open your book on page...‘ and ‘Open your book at page...’ Is there a difference? Preposit...