Don’t be niggardly with the hyphen. Doing so can wreak havoc. On the other hand, insert those little sawed-off lines in the right places,...

Today’s topic is probably the most frequent grammatical error, which abounds in newspapers and every type of literature to be found. The...

CNN’s Dana Bash Dana Bash, a likable correspondent for cable channel CNN, did anything but live up to her name Sunday in quizzing Senate...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu The hawks in Congress and the media have been jumping all over President Obama for the...

The media, for the most part, scorn the folks who resist vaccinations for diseases or are disinclined to have their children vaccinated....

The media, for the most part, scorn the folks who resist vaccinations for diseases or are disinclined to have their children vaccinated....

Well, the government diet gurus have switched positions again. Now they don’t think cholesterol is bad for you. Not long ago, so-called...

The fanatical anti-Obama faction of the GOP – which is almost the entire Republican Party – is at it again. They voted once more, in the...

It’s l-ementary. Pairing or paring the l In certain words, the double l is required. In others, depending on whether the language is...

Florida’s Republican Legislature and governor, Rick Scott, are in a pickle. The people whose boneheaded obeisance to an idiotic ideology...

Like a yokel at a party of snobs, the dangling modifier looks so uncomfortable. He’s out of place and doesn’t know how to get the heck...

The White House indicated that President Obama will veto the Keystone XL Pipeline bill passed last week by the House and due for a vote...

Dr. Mehmet Oz The You Docs are at it again. After results of a huge meta-analysis were published in March, Drs. Mehmet Oz and Michael...

It’s become a full-fledged epidemic. Perhaps the best evidence of the deterioration of English language usage in America is the misuse of...

Ex-Senator Barney Frank We just got a preview of what’s going to happen to the country under the new Congress, with both the House and...

Preventive Gerontologist, Dr. Arnold Bretsky, recommends this … That’s the beginning of a sentence from a newspaper advertorial urging...

How are Americans supposed to know what food is healthy if the major medical organizations propagate wrong information? So far, so good...

The Democratic Party lost the 2014 midterm elections last week to the Republicans, and the Miami Dolphins lost its ninth game of the...

Cruise ship Outside my stateroom window, the big, heavy tub is churning the Caribbean into a frothy white that is absorbed by the inky...

Call them murdered modifiers, muddied modifiers, massacred modifiers – or, perhaps most accurate, misunderstood modifiers. They all...