As a former high school English teacher, I have been known to be a bit of a stickler for proper word usage and grammar. Now, I’m not one of those people who will correct everyone’s posts on social ...

It’s happened again. An armchair language expert has declared a word to not be a word. She didn’t look up the word. She didn’t even look up the word “word.” If she had, she’d know that “shizzleschlep, ...

Dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster drew the internet’s ire earlier last week when it included the word “irregardless” in its “Words of the Week” newsletter and explained that, despite the objections ...

English majors, writers, word snobs, wordsmiths and general word nerds: I am about to turn your world upside down. I mean completely around and then upside down, like that Zipper carnival ride that ...

After years of improper usage by people who failed English class, Merriam-Webster officially recognized “irregardless” as a word by including it in the latest edition of their famed (and increasingly ...

Do you use the word irregardless? Or, an even better question: have you ever had an argument about whether it's a word or not? That very debate has kicked off on social media (not for the first time) ...