NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with John McWhorter, Columbia University linguist and New York Times columnist about the recent Merriam-Webster declaration that English sentences may end with prepositions.

Dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster found itself in hot water recently after weighing in on an age-old grammatical debate. In an Instagram post, Merriam-Webster said it is "permissible" for people ...

An authority on the English language has set us free from the tethers of what many have long regarded as a grammatical no-no. Or has it? The answer depends on how you side with a declaration from ...

This is the kind of nonsense up with which I will not put. The sentence scrawled above was Winston Churchill’s alleged response to the idea that one can’t end a sentence with a preposition, giving ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. “People hustle their way at the avenue, as the majority crossed onto the other side. Yellow-shirted men on navy blue pants ...

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'good at' or 'good in'? Lim Chiu Lan from Malaysia doesn't know if we say someone is 'good at English' or 'good in English' ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Prepositions are handy things, cementing the relationship between parts of a sentence. In the sentence “He ...

Most of us like to think we're in control of our communication. We choose what to say, what opinions to share, what feelings ...