Eons ago, someone gave me a small yellow object to hang on my wall. It proclaimed, “I am silently correcting your grammar.” It was the perfect gift. In fact, I still have it. Grammar is a big deal to ...

Now don’t get scared. We won't start drilling you on “who” vs. “whom,” conjugations, and gerunds. You can relax. We’ll take a much more practical approach, and we won’t use any strange words. Promise.

“A Florida woman was arrested for wrestling a manatee in a bikini at a public park.” If you don’t see the problem with that news headline from a Florida TV station, you probably also didn’t get the ...