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Most readers of this blog will not know that yesterday I took part in a webinar for the International Association of Teachers of English as ...

A correspondent writes to ask about an old chestnut which/that I realise I haven't discussed in my blog hitherto. He asks about the rela...

OP (‘original pronunciation’), as regular readers of these posts know, has so far been mainly directed at Shakespeare. But in the last year ...

A correspondent writes from Oman asking me to resolve a question that has apparently been much debated at his university recently. What is t...

A correspondent (well, several actually) writes to ask what I think about the proposed test for 'English grammar, punctuation and spelli...

The pregnancy is over. The conception was nine months ago, and I have been observing the slow but steady progress of the foetal website ever...

A correspondent writes about the use of the indefinite article before uncountable nouns. He has read (in the Oxford Advanced Learner's D...