DEAR RICHARD: Now retired from 50 years of college teaching and having no more student papers to grade and critique, I address your recent U-T column. I so enjoy, appreciate, and support your language ...

Recently in this space, I touched on two widespread grammar myths that just won’t die: the so-called split infinitive and the dreaded sentence-ending preposition (Re. “Yes, there are superstitions in ...

“Happy the man who has never been told that it is wrong to split an infinitive,” says The Economist’s style guide “Happy the man who has never been told that it is wrong to split an infinitive,” says ...

prophets is spreading a sort of false gospel. doing harm, punishing people for trying to play by the rules. Take, for example, the teacher who, once upon a time, told one of this column’s readers a ...

To not split an infinitive? A sharp-eyed reader has written to reprove Style for a headline that used a split infinitive. He took objection to our headline: “Pastors Fight to Not Protect Gays” (Street ...