In her Oct. 17, 2007, letter to the editor about my online Commentary “No Wiz at Grammar” (Sept. 24, 2007), Lorraine S. Caplan states that the British “consider the comma to be an appropriate ...

We just had to ask. Grammar Girl, have you ever corrected graffiti in a bathroom or the language on a restaurant menu? “No,” said Mignon Fogarty, the 40-year-old writer and editor who has launched a ...

SEVERAL months ago I w as surprised to see Arnold Zwicky, a linguist, use a comma splice. A few commenters took me to task for being over-picky. The question came up again in the comments several days ...