‘The’ is the most commonly used word in English. ‘The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog’ uses all 26 letters of the English alphabet and is called a pangram. Most average adult English speakers ...

GRAMMAR is a strange and wonderful thing. It is also fuzzy. At least the word "grammar" is. So fuzzy, in fact, that linguists rarely invoke it, other than in the broad meaning of "language". They tend ...

Willem Hollmann is affiliated with the Committee for Linguistics in Education (CLiE) and with the Education Committee of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB). Do you know what a suffix ...

Grammar schools are one of those subjects - they’re either loved or hated. The introduction of the grammar school has split British opinion since their introduction in the 16th century. Some see them ...

HAPPY National Grammar Day, everyone. Today's offering is only marginally on grammar. We've asked "What is grammar anyway?" here at Johnson. The layperson would almost certainly answer "those ...

Rob Drummond receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust. Project grant RPG-2014-059 - 'Expressing inner-city youth identity through multicultural urban British English'. Language pedants who take ...

Everyone who has texted or spent even a tiny amount of time on popular social media sites knows how the internet has seemingly lowered the standards of spelling and grammar across the board. Random ...