When I recently explained why teaching grammar in primary school still matters, Radio 4’s Today programme invited me to debate the importance of standard English. My opponent was Nevile Gwynne, a ...

Willem Hollmann is affiliated with the Committee for Linguistics in Education (CLiE) and with the Education Committee of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB). When I recently explained ...

It’s incredible how little we talk about grammar these days. The days of learning about the use of nouns, pronouns, ...

Your March 12 column ["Proper Grammar Is Not a Prerequisite for AP English"], about two students who broke rules of usage while speaking in class, made me spit nails. What is the point of an "advanced ...

Will the English be the death of English? Such a fear, expressed by no less a guardian of the Queen`s English than Prince Charles, has sent forth a seismic wave of controversy that echoes here in the ...

Competition between the ‘Yankees’ and ‘Limeys’ (derogatory terms) spanning decades is, to a larger extent, responsible for the American and British versions of the English language. Out of this ...