In the late 1990s, a friend told me she had used the word “exponentially” in a debate with her brother-in-law. “That’s not a word!” her brother-in-law insisted. “Of course it is,” my friend replied.

Q: I drive a school bus, and this morning one of my seventh graders said to me, “Monte, did you see those deers on the side of the road?” I explained to him that certain words, like “deer,” are both ...

A question from Marlene in Brazil: How do I use the words persons and peoples? I’ve learned that we say one person, two people and we say peoples for nations. Am I correct? Click below to hear the ...