Proper English isn’t correct English. At least, it’s not the only correct English in town. It’s more like a flavor. Or a style. It’s the type of English used in academic and literary as well as ...

What is the good of books on “proper English?” If you felt self-conscious about the way you spoke in the late nineteenth century, you might throw yourself on the mercy of Oliver Bell Bunce’s guide, ...

Regarding Joan Webber’s recent letter on participles and commas, wherein she claims that people misuse “existential,” she is plainly mistaken (”Prickly participles? Speaking proper English is ...

HARLEM, Manhattan (WABC) -- The message from one school was clear - that students had to learn and speak proper English. However, there is controversy over the way one charter school in Harlem ...

England has had a schools inspectorate since 1839, first in the form of Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Schools and, since 1992, in the form of the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services ...

As a native speaker of English—as distinct from its transatlantic cousin, American—Windows has long been the source of considerable emotional trauma for me. Though the operating system has always let ...