Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. The little word “and,” we probably all know, is a conjunction. It connects things: “She is tall and thin” means she is ...

More than one‐third of the world's population uses a writing system that includes both uppercase and lowercase letter forms. In these writing systems, capitalization is the use of an uppercase form ...

People will advise you to write all sorts of sentences. Snappy sentences, lyrical sentences, Hemingway-esque short sentences, long Faulknerian sentences. But there’s really only one kind of sentence ...

I love words. I guess it’s kind of a prerequisite for the job. I especially love old words, ones people don’t use a lot anymore, so I was immediately intrigued by the recent challenge on the Writers ...

A 7-year-old’s homework assignment using the word “down" in a sentence is trending up after it was posted on social media. Summer Toson, 25, was watching her younger sister, Malak, complete a ...