Ellen Jovin, an English language fanatic, was sitting in her New York apartment this summer feeling like it was too hot to do anything fun outside. So, she came up with an idea: a grammar table — ...

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Ellen Jovin sat in Rittenhouse Square at a table she’d hauled from her Manhattan home. Author of Rebel With a Clause, one of her four books on language, Jovin travels from city to city with what she ...