To write a formal letter to the Queen, the convention is to open with ‘Madam’ and close the letter with ‘I have the honour to be, Madam, Your Majesty’s humble and obedient servant’. Formal writing ...

The first part of this article gives a brief overview of the four levels of the Chomsky hierarchy, with a special emphasis on context-free and regular languages. It then recapitulates the arguments ...

ON JULY 20th, Kyle Wiens, who runs two technology companies, wrote a blog post for Harvard Business Review titled "I Won't Hire People Who Use Poor Grammar. Here's Why." The nub: If you think an ...

In the war over proper grammar, one of the biggest minefields writers must navigate is when to capitalize a person’s title. For PR and marketing professionals, there’s no way to avoid title ...

Unlike the carefully scripted dialogue found in most books and movies, the language of everyday interaction tends to be messy and incomplete, full of false starts, interruptions, and people talking ...