There are many differences between British and American punctuation, spelling, and grammar. Neither version is more correct than the other; which version you should use just depends on who your ...

I just read Ben Yagoda’s “American Idioms Have Gone Missing” (The Chronicle Review, June 18). While many of his idiomatic observations are spot on, I have used or heard several of these expressions ...

Grammar expert June Casagrande was recently surprised to learn she is a British citizen, thanks to her father. She took a ...

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It's also got scenery, history and a national anthem no one can sing. Those are just some of the things we celebrate, each time July 4 rolls around. But there's one thing we often forget about, as we ...

TROUGH Mr. Mencken’s book on our language has the rare distinction among philological works of deserving to be read especially for its faults, it has, so far as word-mongering is concerned, a distinct ...

British and American cultures have shared a close bond for decades, but over time, the two nations have started to diverge in some surprisingly significant ways. Once upon a time, not too long ago, ...