Punctuation is often a symbolically loaded. Is there anything else so heavily regulated, codified and coddled as the period, comma, or exclamation point?

The linguistics behind "dishonorifics." In this kind of naming construction, clearly honorifics are added in an ironic, tongue-in-cheek way.

Recent research by Katherine Kinzler adds to the plethora of evidence that bilinguals enjoy mental advantages.

I say "Harvard" and you say "Hahvahd"

In the University of Texas library, our writer found a previously unknown audiotape of an interview with a woman who'd been born into slavery.

What constitutes ‘correct’ grammar in English seems to have a cyclical life, aided and abetted by new generations of enthusiastic grammarians.