SPLIT infinitives. Can't live with them, can't live without them. But what on earth is one, and should we care that much? Here beginnith the lesson. The infinitive is the part of the verb expressed by ...

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 ...

NOT before time, the proliferation of the split infinitive in spoken English and its almost tripling since the early 1990s is announced by researchers. ("To actually split an infinitive on the ...

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here. In the course of drafting his story, Chandler was no less annoyed by ...