Every year in this column, I give tips for how to avoid the most common writing mistakes in holiday greetings and invitations. And every year, I’m reminded of just how influential I’m not as people ...

Tom in Glendale wrote recently to ask about plurals of names ending in S. “How do you pluralize a name like Ross?” he asked. “It has to be Rosses, right? I just saw Ross’ as the plural, as in ‘the ...

The word ‘plural’ comes from the Old French ‘plurel’ which means ‘more than one’. A noun is a word used to identify something.There are a lot of nouns.There are many patterns to look out for when you ...

In the animal kingdom, more than one moose are still moose, while a mongoose and his friends are mongooses, yet a goose and her flock are geese. Go figure. An error ...