by Mary Norris
I've become more and more interested in language and grammar over the past few years, probably in part because I've been writing more online and I don't want to embarrass myself. Living in Australia has something to do with it too, as I find myself defending why Americans talk or write the way they...
Mary Norris has a very chatty tone when she's telling you about the spelling and grammar mistakes she's corrected in her career at the New Yorker, and it's easy to forget how remarkable her information is. She's talking about a certain language rule, and to illustrate, she tells you about a particu...